Public Earth Launches
So about three years ago I came across a description of a soon to be service called Public Earth that was to become the defacto source of data related to geographic spaces. And as of yesterday it seems as though that site at publicearth.com is now live and ready for use… positioning itself as “the wiki for places”.
It initially “only” contains a database of 5 million places across 400 categories… interestingly, by comparison the nearly decade old Wikipedia just reached the 3 million (english) article milestone in August 2009. But even so, as you start to do some initial searches on Public Earth you quickly realize that even at 5 million records strong, there is still a lot not there.
It seems that 5 million places is just an initial seeding to get things kicked off. The hope seems to be that the general public takes it from here and starts to fill in the rest. Read more
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