GigWalk, Centzy and Locu: Meeting Demand for Better HyperLocal Data
This week there is a LBS Apps developer meetup happening here in NYC that will be focusing on working with POI and venue data… an area that has always been of particular interest for me dating back five or six years ago driving along Central Park South with my Garmin Nuvi and noticing all the garage and auto repair places that Garmin said were there but that didn’t reality exist. I am still not sure if it was just a GIS nerds’ idea of a joke, or was the state of data really just that bad. Well fast forward to today and some respects we’ve made a lot of progress, and in other ways we’re still at square one. Read more

