Developers and applications have challenges matching the same location between data sources and sharing a location between applications. Why? In this panel, we'll look at the pros, cons, and challenges of using proprietary, open source, and/or community-built data sets; why there won't be one location database to rule them all; ways we can all work together to make sure your place is my place when our applications talk to each other; and why all of this is important.
Adam DuVander is the author of Map Scripting 101 and Executive Editor of ProgrammableWeb, the leading resource for open Web APIs. He helps developers and decision makers navigate this new, connected web and covers popular platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Google Maps. You can catch Adam speaking at many web industry events, such as O'Reilly's Web 2.0 and Where 2.0. In addition to writing and speaking, DuVander is also an active contributor to the open source mapping library, Mapstraction. Previously he wrote for Wired.com's web developer resource and dug deep into location data with Sperling's BestPlaces.
Josh Babetski is MapQuest's Product Evangelist and a Senior Product Manager. His role includes developer and consumer outreach and engagement and he's also responsible for several distribution products and developer services. Josh also develops geo-social gaming applications on the side.
Read more about Josh at http://joshbabetski.com and find him on many online communities as "quixado."
Co-founder & CTO of Gowalla. Ruby/ Cocoa/ JavaScript developer. Author. Indoorsman.
Director of Product at Factual; former head of Yahoo Geo Technologies. Ex- archaeologist. ATM user and bounder. Writes about semantic- and geo-technologies for O'Reilly Radar.
