The Freebase Blog

Next week is the Where 2.0 conference in Burlingame, CA, and Freebase will be there.

Freebase contributor Jonathan Lowe will be presenting some of his work on Freebase and geodata:

To achieve the goal of cultivating a large base of users who repeatedly visit your site, your mashups must deliver useful, specific answers to a range of questions from a disparate audience. Mashups that rely on open, free, semantically structured data stores such as Metaweb’s Freebase enable the users themselves to add or modify data and adjust analysis rules so that the results are correct, complete and relevant specifically to them, rather than generic “once-off” answers.

This is the geo application that Jamie showed us a preview of at the Freebase User Group meeting in February.

Outside of the formal program, Freebase will also be hosting OpenStreetMap for a San Francisco mapping party tomorrow (Saturday May 10th) at 10:30am. Join us at the Freebase offices (631 Howard St, SF, but enter through side entrance at 55 Hawthorne St), borrow a GPS, and help contribute to OSM’s freely available maps.

For a map of our office location and a sample of OSM, see this map.

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