hello

[aaron]

First Question... how come there are no questions??

Real question.. how come when I search I cannot find BWI? or Verizon
Center??

These are two locations in the Washington DC area and they are not
coming back in my result set

[John Cwikla]

1) We just launched a little over a week ago - sorry for the delay,
but as you
can imagine we've been busy. We will be responding in a much more
timely manner
for future questions.

2) We are using a variety of sources for our places data, the majority
which comes from
Factual (www.factual.com). For the case of the BWI airport, it's on
our list of
"places we are in the process of geolocating" as we weren't given a
lat/lng for
that data, so we are processing those now, and they should show up in
the next few days.
Note that BWI actually shows up in Maryland and not Washington in
terms of actual address.

3) Verizon Center is actually in our dataset but as MCI Center -
which was it's old name.
Due to the way the data gets aggregated, sometimes some names that
have alot of old content
associated with them overweight a new name. Our API allows users to
submit edits which
we can pass along to Factual so that everyone can get the benefit of
your update.

John Cwikla
VPE
Fwix