Re: Discussion of neogeo ontology today

Josh -

Good points. The proper approach would be to develop a set of comments and submit them to the IETF and the authors. Essentially, this draft RFC has been submitted for  6 month public review and comment.

I would be happy to collate any comments and submit them via IETF processes.

Regards

Carl

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Joshua Lieberman 
  To: Carl Reed OGC Account 
  Cc: GeoXG GeoXG 
  Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 8:54 PM
  Subject: Re: Discussion of neogeo ontology today


  Carl,


  Thanks for the reference to this. It is a rather unfortunate approach since it is not format-compatible with anything else (e.g. ISO or GML) and if fails to provide anything which can be handled by existing Web search mechanisms. 


  The well-known quadrature of WGS84 (interleaved latitude, longitude) at least allows text-search mechanisms to come up with spatial groupings, but this proposal provides neither aspects nor searchability. Perhaps we could come up with an alternative? 


  I had at one point include "GRL" geospatial resource locator as a Geo XG work item, but lack of human resources have held it back.


  Josh


  On Feb 28, 2007, at 7:08 PM, Carl Reed OGC Account wrote:


    Thought the group might be interested in a "geo" proposal being considered by the IETF.

    This is a short document for defining a geo URI.

    http://geouri.org/draft-mayrhofer-geo-uri-00.txt

    One of the examples of use (as part of an entire section) is the OGC WMS interface!

    This is related to the work as documented at the http://geouri.org/about/ website.

    Carl

      ----- Original Message -----
      From: Joshua Lieberman
      To: GeoXG GeoXG ; GeoXG GeoXG
      Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 8:25 AM
      Subject: Discussion of neogeo ontology today


      Hi,


      At today's call (12h30 EST, usual parameters) we should discuss the proposed geo update ontology (http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/geo/Wiki/Geo_Update) as well as consider plans to augment and/or federate spatial ontologies, eg what to do with foaf:based_near.


      Contact me or join the IRC channel (irc.w3.org:6665#geoxg) for call information.


      Cheers,


      Josh


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