Yahoo Placemaker Aims to Make the Web Location Aware
When it comes to websites and applications that use geo-aware technologies, like GPS, to add location-based data to your experience, we’ve typically referred to them as location-based services (LBS). In that category, you have Google Latitude , Loopt , and Brightkite to name just a few. Now, Yahoo’s announcing that their GeoPlanet data is being made available to the public via a Creative Commons license, and in the form of Placemaker , a new Web service released at Where2.0 today that essentially lets any developer add geo-data to their…
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