[georss] [Opensearch-discuss] Spatio-temporal query extension

[Pat Cappelaere]

Yes.  I guess this could be via the proposed bbox query.
A smart FF plugin might be able to detect that a search engine has that
capability and offer a map interface to specific the bbox in addition to
keyword search.  This would be way cool.

We would need to agree on namespace, parameters...
This OpenSearch extension might not be too hard based on the examples
provide by deWitt.  Might be harder to get everyone to agree :)

There was a lot of discussion with the georss.org group with microformats.
This group, as you may know, has proposed an extension of the Atom/RSS
format to support geospatial information.  This would be, of course, what
those servers would return in our case.

Would be great to have them onboard.

Pat.


> From: "Shorthouse, David" <dps1 at ualberta.ca>
> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:58:49 -0600
> To: 'Mike Rylander' <mrylander at gmail.com>, Pat Cappelaere <pat at cappelaere.com>
> Cc: <opensearch-discuss at opensearch.org>
> Subject: RE: [Opensearch-discuss] Spatio-temporal query extension
> 
> One way to get started on this would be miny, maxy, minx, maxx querystring
> parameters.
> 
> e.g.
> http://canadianarachnology.dyndns.org/data/canada_spiders/gmapbounds.asp
> 
> David P. Shorthouse
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> 
> On 3/13/07, Pat Cappelaere <pat at cappelaere.com> wrote:
>> I would like to use OpenSearch and extend it to support spatio-temporal
>> queries.
>> Example: bbox=lat1,long1,lat2,long2
>>          from=datetime, to=datetime
>> 
>> Has anyone done anything like that?
>> This would be a great step forward for searching geospatial data nodes.
>> I would appreciate feedback.
> 
> That sounds like a great extension, actually, and something I'd like
> to implement eventually.  The one other thing that I'd really like
> would be the option of a bounding circle defined by point and radius.
> Often that's the right way to find entries "within X miles" and such.
> 
> Do you have a demo implementation at this point?
> 
>> Pat.
>> 
> 
>