Re: Geo location with dataset, microdata and RDFa

There's a lot of prior  and parallel work  you may want to review:

http://georss.org/Main_Page

http://geojson.org/geojson-spec.html

and ongoing work in the W3C

http://www.w3.org/2010/POI/



On 9/8/11 6:07 AM, Sarven Capadisli wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 14:01 +0100, Sarven Capadisli wrote:
>> On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 14:07 +0200, Karl Dubost wrote:
>>> # 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?
>> Am I overlooking something obvious here? There is lat, long properties
>> in wgs84 vocab. So,
>>
>> <span about="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Montreal">
>>      <span property="geo:lat"
>>            content="45.5"
>>            datatype="xsd:float"></span>
>>      <span property="geo:lat"
>>            content="-73.666667"
>>            datatype="xsd:float"></span>
>>      Montreal
>> </span>
>>
>> Tabbed for readability. You might need to get rid of whitespace.
>>
>> -Sarven
> Better yet:
>
> <li about="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Montreal">
>      <span property="geo:lat"
> ...
>
>
> -Sarven
>
>
>
>

Received on Thursday, 8 September 2011 17:46:43 UTC