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Hacking with Google, Virtual Earth and Yahoo's Maps API I

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Andrew Turner (FortiusOne), Evan 'Rabble' Henshaw-Plath (cuboxsa.com)
9:00am Tuesday, 05/19/2009
Location: Regency Ballroom #1
Presentation: Hacking with Google, Virtual Earth and Yahoo's Maps API I Presentation [PDF]

You can add maps to your site in minutes with Microsoft, Google’s, Mapquest, or Yahoo’s APIs. However, there’s more to geo than just maps or the big guy’s APIs.

Learn how and when to use geocoding, reverse-geocoding, place names and other services that you’ve never hear of before.

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Andrew Turner

FortiusOne

Andrew Turner is the CTO at FortiusOne, the company behind GeoCommons, a geospatial visualization and platform. He co-founded Mapufacture, a personalized geospatial search and aggregation system that was acquired by FortiusOne in August 2008 in order to combine real-time feeds with large GIS datasets. Andrew is focused on collaboration and user-generated content around location and time. He is actively involved in open-data projects such as OpenStreetMap and VoteReport, as well as open-source projects like Mapstraction and GeoPress. He regularly speaks at conferences on the benefits of open-source software and geospatial standards to communities and organizations. Andrew wrote the O’Reilly shortcut “Introduction to Neogeography” and “Trends in Where2.0” business report in Spring 2008. He is also published in MacTech and Make magazine on his home-automation hacking.

Previously, Andrew was an aerospace engineer building airships, spacecraft and real-time immersive simulators. He received his B.S in Aerospace Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Virginia and his Masters from Virginia Tech.

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Evan 'Rabble' Henshaw-Plath

cuboxsa.com

Rabble is an independent hacker. He has extensive experience doing ruby on rails development and generally causing a ruckus. He was the architect for Odeo.com and Yahoo! Fire Eagle location broker platform. He’s based in Montevideo, Uruguay where he started a web shop, Cubox SA.