Geo location with dataset, microdata and RDFa

Hi,
I was trying to come up with a way to represent location with different markup solutions.

# Simple HTML

<ul id="places">
    <li>Montréal, Canada</li>
    <li>Paris, France</li>
</ul>



# Using dataset (can be queried with dataset API)

<ul data-georef="WGS84" id="places-ds">
    <li><span 
        data-geolat="45.5" 
        data-geolon="-73.666667">Montréal</span>, Canada</li>
    <li><span 
        data-geolat="48.856578" 
        data-geolon="2.351828">Paris</span>, France</li>
</ul>

* Issue: These data are not referring to any vocabulary agreement, they are really meant to be private to the page. So really not the best use of dataset.



# Using microdata (can be queried with microdata API)

<ul id="places-md" 
    itemprop="geo" 
    itemscope 
    itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">
    <li>
        <span class="city">
        <meta itemprop="latitude" content="45.5" />
        <meta itemprop="longitude" content="-73.666667" />
        Montréal</span>, Canada</li>
    <li>
        <span class="city">
        <meta itemprop="latitude" content="48.856578" />
        <meta itemprop="longitude" content="2.351828" />
        Paris</span>, France</li>
</ul>

* Issue: Doesn't define the reference system which has been used
  http://www.data-vocabulary.org/Geo/
* Issue: Verbose


# Using RDFa (not implemented in browsers)


<ul xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" id="places-rdfa">
    <li><span
        about="http://www.dbpedia.org/resource/Montreal" 
        geo:lat_long="45.5,-73.666667">Montréal</span>, Canada</li>
    <li><span 
        about="http://www.dbpedia.org/resource/Paris"
        geo:lat_long="48.856578,2.351828">Paris</span>, France</li>
</ul>

* Issue: Latitude and Longitude not separated 
  (have to parse them with regex in JS)
* Issue: xmlns with <!doctype html>  


# Question

On RDFa vocabulary, I would really like a solution with geo:lat and geo:long, Ideas?

-- 
Karl Dubost
Montréal, QC, Canada
http://www.la-grange.net/karl/



-- 
Karl Dubost
Montréal, QC, Canada
http://www.la-grange.net/karl/

Received on Thursday, 8 September 2011 12:08:03 UTC