12
Jan
2005
Article: Geotagging
My second Linux Journal article, titled Geotagging Web Pages and RSS Feeds was posted yesterday.
It was a little difficult to narrow down the current, commonly used geotagging mechanisms. I’m very excited about the results of the SWAD-E results of their Workshop on representing geographic information in the semantic Web. Doing things like FOAF (friend of a friend) relationships with geographic information. Having tooltips that popup showing relative geographic distances between links (e.g. this link is located 4.5km away).
Let me know your thoughts on the article.
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January 12th, 2005 at 1:12 pm (#)
Hi
Good article! Good to see these ideas percolate.
Just wanted to submit a couple corrections..
* for geotagging RSS with the geo namespace, the lat/long doesn’t need to be embedded in … at least not for worldkit
* it’s Mikel, rather than Michael
January 17th, 2005 at 2:10 am (#)
Although it does recall the old camp saw about the ‘weather rock’ (if it’s wet, its raining…)
the Economist did summarize the current state of research on micro-forecasts. In addition to discussing some of the true benefits (mostly commercial), it also discussed the wisdom of averaging multiple forecasts, sort of a Wisdom of Crowds sort of exercise.
http://economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=2246180