[Geowanking] Google signs with OGC

[Allan Doyle]

On Jan 23, 2006, at 14:28, Jo Walsh wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 02:13:58PM -0500, Allan Doyle wrote:
>> They also brought in people from their automotive unit in Ireland.
>>
>> Steve had interesting RDF-ish ideas about how to get data bundles to
>> "knit up" at the edges.
>
> This leaves me agog for More Information! Is there any nearby you?

No. I dug around my archival stuff. But I don't have anything. I  
remember having deep philosophical discussions with him about this  
but it's been swept from my brain pretty thoroughly.

What little I remember has to do with triplets, much like RDF, used  
to describe the bits and pieces of the data. Think road networks. How  
do you work your way from Boston to New York and someone else works  
the other way and realize you are on the same road? Somehow his idea  
was to describe enough about the roads so you could figure out how to  
connect the two even if they were in different data sets with  
different schemas.

I think you'll have to track him down instead...

	Allan

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