[Geowanking]RDF help sought

[Richard Soderberg]

On Monday, May 12, 2003, at 09:51  AM, Anselm Hook wrote:

>
>>> [1] http://ThereAndThen.org - the gist is: a consistent,
>>> universal method of specifying location and time in a secondary
>>> URL - tie a web resource to a point in time & space, on a per-domain
>>> basis.  A sample TT address in URL form:
>>> http://example.com/37.75,-122.45,15/2002-11-05T13:15:30Z/event.html
>
> Wouldn't it be better to embed the long lat as a parameter passed to a 
> cgi
> rather than directly in the URL itself?
>
>   http://example.com/spatialsearch/?lat=37.75&lon=122.45...
>
> Then you could focus on formalizing what the query is...  and would
> probably see more adoption.

I've found that Apache2 has an option that enables PATHINFO queries, 
such that you pass cgi parameters via pathname -- like above, or how 
Amazon does it.  It's a nice alternative to using ?a=b&c=d queries, 
when you want to retain the pathnameyness of things.

> Alternatively the query could be shipped as a piece of xml... much like
> talking to the google api.

I'd be *all for* having an API available to query about a given URL on 
my site.  That'd be useful for many, many things besides geostamp 
metadata, too -- like last modification time, revision history, 
comments, etc.

  - R.