Message received. Hoping to catch up with you at TPAC ... On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 at 23:06 Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com> wrote: > I'm not sure when the RDFIG/SWIG basic geo SpatialThing vocabulary started > to be taken so seriously! > > https://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/ and > https://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos were just a bunch of us from the > W3C RDF IG / Semweb IG collaborating in a few IRC chats, as a result of our > having noticed that a lot of us had made up similar-looking RDF schemas > that defined lat/long-related properties. The main lesson from that > exercise was that people will adopt something and assume it has had careful > review, merely because it is on w3.org. It took quite a while (~3 years!) > before someone noticed that we defined an 'alt' property without saying > what it means. Please don't tie yourself in knots trying to coordinate with > it; instead consider any modest improvements we could make to its > documentation (including pointers to later work from this group or > elsewhere). > > Dan > > >
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