adding hypermedia to spatial data best practices

hello.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/NOTE-sdw-ucr-20150723/#BestPractices talks 
about the possible contents of a "Spatial Data on the Web Best 
Practices" document. it talks about recommending URIs as identifiers 
(good!), and recommending or even specifying REST APIs for spatial data 
on the web (good!). however, in between there should be explicit advice 
about making spatial data on web "webby", by which i mean hypermedia.

i have been working on two (incomplete) resources, one explaining what 
"web data" is all about (https://github.com/dret/webdata), and the other 
one being more detailed in terms of possible features of hypermedia 
formats, and how they are supported in specific formats 
(https://github.com/dret/hyperpedia).

i am not sure how detailed the best practices document will be, but it 
would be great to see it making at least some recommendations for 
spatial data to be webby, and maybe even explaining a bit what that 
actually entails.

thanks and cheers,

dret.

ps: if there is a more appropriate forum to direct this feedback to 
(specifically, some form of issue tracker), please kindly let me know.

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