This week I was at SxSW Interactive, for those that aren’t familiar it is a 5 day conference about new technology. I was there to be on a panel about “Interoperable Location Data” with Josh Babetski from Mapquest, Adam DuVander of Programmable Web, Scott Raymond from Gowalla and Tyler Bell of Factual. The premise of the panel was that many organizations are currently creating point of interest databases, but how do you combine them or allow them to interact?