[Geowanking] geo microformat BOF session at Where 2.0

[Chris Goad]

Schuyler,

> But... but... but... RDF/XML islands!

Well, you might be right. The microformat annotation of  a span with a
lat/long might look like:

<span id="foo">
Whatever
<abbr class="longitude" title="123.5"/>
<abbr class="latitude" title = "46.1"/>
</span

whereas the island is, I guess:

<span id="foo">
whatever
<span style ="display:none">
<XML id="latlong">
<?xml blah blah>
<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
        xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#">
  <geo:Point>
    <geo:lat>46.1</geo:lat>
    <geo:long>-123.1</geo:long>
  </geo:Point>
</rdf:RDF>
</XML>
</span>
</span>


The latter has been available to everyone for years, and something like the
former will be be agreed upon in I'd guess a month or so, to fanfare
perhaps.   I predict that the population that is not already sold on RDF
will like the former better, resulting in an addition to the stock of tools
that support geotagging. This would not be such a bad thing.  We would like
the world to understand and love RDF, but until that day comes, incremental
improvements in representation of semantic content by alternative formalisms
should not be resisted.

--Chris






----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Schuyler Erle" <schuyler at nocat.net>
To: "Chris Goad" <cg at mapbureau.com>; <geowanking at lists.burri.to>
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Geowanking] geo microformat BOF session at Where 2.0


> * On  5-Jul-2005 at  3:30PM PDT, Chris Goad said:
> >
> > Practically speaking, though, there is  a vast world of content that
flows
> > around as XHTML only; we geowankers will benefit greatly from any widely
> > adopted method of geotagging this content. You might mention GRDDL,  but
it
> > may be that GRDDL's slightly higher complexity and more abstract
formulation
> > will be an obstacle to adoption. We'll see.
>
> But... but... but... RDF/XML islands!
>
> SDE
>
>