- From: Andy Mabbett <andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk>
- Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 18:09:59 +0100
- To: public-vocabs@w3.org
[Copy of reply inadvertently sent directly to Jim] On 27 October 2011 17:43, Jim Rhyne <jrhyne@thematix.com> wrote: > Disclosure: I am affiliated with Rob Kost. We are currently doing markup for > some hotel sites. > A recurring structure on “resort” hotel sites is a table showing the > distance from the hotel to local attractions. For example, hotels in Orlando > often show distance to Disneyland, Wet ‘n Wild, and so forth. > We also had to invent some new properties: > “distanceTo” is a new property of Place with a target type of PathDistance > > “toPlace” is a property of PathDistance with Place as a target type > > “toDistance” is a property of PathDistance with Distance as a target type > There really is not an existing schema.org property that could be extended > to define “distanceTo”. The public documentation (including this forum) does > not seem to address the definition of new properties that extend schema.org. > Is it conceivable that there will be an extension mechanism based on OWL’s > notion of top object property and subproperties? Or should we think to > create a vocabulary that defines these things and incorporates the reusable > parts of schema.org? This seems redundant; just publish the address and/or coordinates, and let other - impartial - tools work out distances. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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