[georss] Fw: [uf-dev] GEO Microformats Web Service

[Carl Reed OGC Account]

Someone may wish to respond.

Cheers

Carl

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Danny Ayers" <danny.ayers at gmail.com>
To: <public-xg-geo at w3.org>
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 4:18 AM
Subject: Fwd: [uf-dev] GEO Microformats Web Service


> 
> fyi -
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Brian Suda <brian.suda at gmail.com>
> Date: Jul 31, 2006 2:15 AM
> Subject: [uf-dev] GEO Microformats Web Service
> To: "A list for people developing tools with microformats."
> <microformats-dev at microformats.org>
> 
> 
> I have been working on a few more XSLT files to convert the GEO
> microformat to a set of corresponding XML files, namely KML (for
> google maps and google earth) and GeoRSS (for Yahoo! maps), which is
> using the W3C Geo Point Namespace in RSS 2.0.
> 
> http://suda.co.uk/projects/microformats/geo/
> 
> it is still an early iteration, but i have run into a few "good"
> problems. Unlike hCard/hCalendar, GEO is the first that has been
> mapped to multiple formats. (citations will probably be the next).
> 
> Now, GEO is part of hCard, but it has been broken out on its own as well.
> 
> The "proprietary" Geo XML formats all seem to have elements for TITLE,
> DESCRIPTION etc. GEO format alone does not have these (and i don't
> think it should). So as I transform GEO microformats to XML can or
> should i be looking for other microformats that might be parents, e.g.
> hCards, hCalendar and attempt to extract TITLE and DESCRIPTION from
> various other properties, FN, SUMMARY, DESCRIPTION, and/or is this
> more of an implementation-by-implementation "feature"?
> 
> Finally, would anyone be adverse to me checking these into HG as a GEO
> repository?
> 
> -brian
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