Hyperpublic Wants To “Structure The Data In Your Local World”

Re:Hyperpublic Wants To “Structure The Data In Your Local Wo... by NonMint on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @02:11PM (#2166804)

This could be very interesting but without some of the "big names" (RE: Google Maps et all) participating I'm not sure it will be more than just a few people participating in an interesting concept open content database.

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Re:Hyperpublic Wants To “Structure The Data In Your Local Wo... by jordancooper on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @02:16PM (#2166830)

who else do you think are important big names?

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Re:Hyperpublic Wants To “Structure The Data In Your Local Wo... by NonMint on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @02:39PM (#2166969)

Anything that's either going to be taking in a large amount of relevant data (such as GPS applications) or has an installed userbase large enough to warrant inclusion in the "big names" that I specified above. It doesn't have to be major companies but there has to be enough data to make contributing to it worthwhile. It's kind of a catch-22 that is solved by either industry wide grassroots acceptance or a big name player coming in and providing the initial data.

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.

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