Re: Geographic Metadata About WWW Servers/Pages

On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Steven Clift wrote:

> I am interested in making the Internet more community oriented (in a 
> geographic sense - the virtual communities have relatively fine) so 
> that for example a map could be generated by an Internet search/index 
> site or so someone could indicate that they want to search in X 
> place/area based on Y keywords.  I assume that geographical naming 
> standards are easier to agree upon than keywords and the like 
> (longitude, latitude, Global Positioning Satellites, place names - say 
> how about a virtual version of GPS that would allow a site the 
> _option_ of choosing a GPS point that represents their site - then 
> you could leverage that body of work).

Currently under way in Dublin Core metadata effort

Can't remember all the URLs
offhand.  http://vancouver-webpages.com/VWbot/DC.lite and
surf. Currently discussing thesauri of placenames.

Andrew Daviel