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

[Andrew Turner]

I already talked with Brian and will follow up with him on IRC.

On 7/31/06, Carl Reed OGC Account <creed at opengeospatial.org> wrote:
> 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
> >
> > --
> > brian suda
> > http://suda.co.uk
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