Location data provider GeoIQ today detailed a new offering called GeoIQ Social.
This is a real-time streaming API that delivers location-enabled data
from Twitter, Pachube-enabled sensor hardware and other platforms into a
map-friendly output format that can be updated as the data changes.
Boom!
Sentiment analysis, user ranking, data from sensors and potentially
much more can all be taken into account in requesting data from the API.
Connectors have been built for "all sorts of databases including
PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, HBase, and MongoDB as well as an even newer
types of databases and APIs like Google Fusion Tables." Awesome.
The company concludes its discussion of the new API by saying it
intends to extend far beyond where it is today in dynamic data and
dynamic mapping. "Without giving it all away," writes Chris Helm, Head
of Analytics at GeoIQ, "we're thinking along the lines of realtime
analytics, dynamic event alerting and more tools for easy
collaboration."
That sounds fabulous to me. When physical place and the real-time
social web come together in the form of streaming data APIs, the
possibilities for augmenting time, place, civil society and the meaning
of the web are substantial.
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