Re: Use Cases

Awesome question Robert, for which I have no ready answer. Using polygon selectors defined with GeoJSON/TopoJSON appeals to me naturally as it conveys the intent without needing any server side processing other than regular storage, and can be rendered easily in any client.



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Puneet Kishor
Science and Data Policy, Creative Commons

> On Mar 2, 2014, at 10:41 AM, Robert Casties <casties@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de> wrote:
> 
>> On 28.02.14 16:14, Mr. Puneet Kishor wrote:
>> (speaking as a long-term moonlighting GIS developer) I would think that annotating online representations of "subsets of geographic regions" is very relevant.
> 
> How would you specify subsets of geographic regions? With additional
> selectors like polygon shapes or using identifiers in the geographic
> data describing the regions?
> 
> I am have been thinking a lot about annotation selectors on images that
> go beyond #xywh media fragments (I am trying to write up something for
> the W3C workshop on annotations in the web). My current idea would be to
> adopt something from the geo-world like WKT and GeoJSON. I think it
> would be great to have an overlap to geo-annotations.
> 
> Best
>    Robert Casties
> 
>>> On Feb 28, 2014, at 6:06 AM, <philip.kershaw@stfc.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Rob,
>>> 
>>> I'm collaborating with some partners on a project on a use case for annotating subsets of geographic regions.  We are using this for annotating climate science and Earth observation datasets but this could have application within the broader remit of GIS applications.  Could this be relevant here or does it come under the category of 'data annotation' that you mention?  Maybe you or others on the list are aware of similar activities in this area.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Phil
>>> 
>>>> On 24 Feb 2014, at 22:52, Robert Sanderson wrote:
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>>>> 
>>>> Dear all,
>>>> 
>>>> The W3C Digital Publishing Interest Group is going to publish a working draft of a Note on Annotation use cases in the near future.  I have put a pre-working draft (whatever that means :) ) of the text up at:
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.openannotation.org/usecases.html
>>>> 
>>>> Any comments, corrections, additions, etc are very welcome!
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> Rob
>>>> 
>>>> P.S. Bob, unfortunately data annotation directly isn't in scope of the IG work, but I've included it under the embedded resource use case to try and promote the discussion.
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