Hyperpublic Wants To “Structure The Data In Your Local World”
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I have a bunch of geotagged photos of interesting buildings in SF and NYC on Flickr already, and I'd like to add some of them to the site to tell other people about them, but I don't know quite whether to add them as places or things. I added one, but the TOS saying that they can do anything with what I upload makes me hesitate a little bit before adding bunches of stuff...
I thought about adding myself, but the "I want to add" interface just tells me "a place" or "a thing" right now - not sure if that's intentional?
I'd like to see "everything in New York City" or "everything in San Francisco", or even "everything in California", but I don't seem to be able to browse that way; I keep fighting with the autocomplete!
So I'll wait a bit on messing with it more; looking forward to how it shapes up.
for example, it seems like the whole point of the service - to tag stuff with locations - is one of the hardest things to do. the only way i've been able to add a hyperlocation to my "dashboard" (instead of profile?) is by randomly seeing a link in the search results. i'm not sure why with their new design they couldn't add that link to the hyperlocations sections of my "dashboard."
To use my previous example, if Google dumps most or all of it's map data into this endeavor it gains a tonne of legitimacy. Otherwise your just a little fish in a big ocean of data that people are holding on to and refusing to share.