[Geowanking] ***Location Linked Information***

[Mike Liebhold]

Daniel,

Check out the technical details in Chapter 4 of Matthew's paper. He's 
got some interesting ideas on uses for time stamped data.

This is no 'Ivory Tower' paper, at all. He's got _working_  code. IMHO 
this is a solid piece of work.

I'm going to write him, inviting him to join the list to answer questions.

Mike


Daniel Smith wrote:

>>
> > 3.    A distributed network of databases manage the information 
> nugget pointers which are
> > URLs to actual information. Information nuggets themselves are 
> position/time/url tuples that
> > lead  the viewer to further sources of data.
>
>
> Hmm, sounds like fun.
>
> I may have not read the paper deeply enough in a 15 minute lookover,
> but I don't see enough emphasis on Time.
>
> Example: lets say I use some geo-tagging system to point at a restaurant
> I like.  Next year, the restaurant goes out of business and
> becomes a nightclub.  Do we update the data and lose the
> history of what existed in a given space before?  What about
> a friend that keeps moving, etc?  In a nutshell, I want
> to search on a location for last week, or for next month
> (future event).
>
> When I wrote up the scheme at http://ThereAndThen.org [1], I was
> thinking about the two indisputable axis relating to any
> given event - time and space.  Without attention paid
> to time, any halfway interesting location becomes
> a blob of data to sift through - static points on
> a map that could be clutter, or could be relevant
> to a given search.
>
> Great paper though (even if it is from an ivory-tower
> institution ;-)
>
> Daniel
>
> [1] don't get hung up on the pure URL aspect of it.  It could
> just as well be RSS, chunks of XML w/Jabber, and so on.  The
> URL aspect is a very portable, bookmarkable representation.
>
>-- 
>  
>
> Daniel L. Smith                      - Sonoma County, CA
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> Nov2003,daniel dot org               - AIM: SonomaDaniel

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