- From: Andrew Daviel <andrew@andrew.triumf.ca>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 19:08:16 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Steven Clift <clift@freenet.msp.mn.us>
- cc: www-talk@w3.org
On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Steven Clift wrote: > I am interested in making the Internet more community oriented (in a > geographic sense - the virtual communities have relatively fine) so > that for example a map could be generated by an Internet search/index > site or so someone could indicate that they want to search in X > place/area based on Y keywords. I assume that geographical naming > standards are easier to agree upon than keywords and the like > (longitude, latitude, Global Positioning Satellites, place names - say > how about a virtual version of GPS that would allow a site the > _option_ of choosing a GPS point that represents their site - then > you could leverage that body of work). Currently under way in Dublin Core metadata effort Can't remember all the URLs offhand. http://vancouver-webpages.com/VWbot/DC.lite and surf. Currently discussing thesauri of placenames. Andrew Daviel
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