[georss] [Fwd: Re: [Opensearch-discuss] Spatio-temporal query extension]

[Andrew Turner]

Would it make more sense to discuss it on the opensearch list? Since
this is just an extension of open-search?

It doesn't get much traffic currently.

Andrew

On 5/2/07, Allan Doyle <adoyle at eogeo.org> wrote:
>
> On May 2, 2007, at 13:31, Gregor J. Rothfuss wrote:
>
> > Allan Doyle wrote:
> >
> >>  From the spec, this is as detailed as the search template gets:
> >>
> >> template="http://example.com/?q={searchTerms}"
> >>
> >> I would say that the geo world wants to define the details of what
> >> would go into the "searchTerms" field.
> >>
> >>      Allan
> >
> >
> > now is the time to bring this up again. i'd be happy to work on a
> > draft.
> > we could even start with the BBOX stuff.
> >
>
> I think a new list would be appropriate for this. And I'm happy to
> jump in.
>
>         Allan
>
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: Re: [Opensearch-discuss] Spatio-temporal query extension
> > Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:50:11 -0700
> > From: DeWitt Clinton <dewitt at unto.net>
> > To: Mike Rylander <mrylander at gmail.com>
> > CC: Pat Cappelaere <pat at cappelaere.com>,
> > opensearch-discuss at lists.opensearch.org,      Gregor J. Rothfuss
> > <gregor at apache.org>
> > References: <C21C7864.22F7E%pat at cappelaere.com>
> > <b918cf3d0703140730q3692b060h42c8354bbf03dd1b at mail.gmail.com>
> >
> > This is something I've wanted to see for a long, long time.
> >
> > A while back I worked on a microformat-based approach (hCard and
> > adr/geo)
> > for a local search product I was involved in.  That product never
> > shipped,
> > so unfortunately the specification was never published.  The nice
> > thing
> > about that approach was that it layered well with more structured
> > elements,
> > like georss and gml, but it also degraded very nicely when accessed
> > by a
> > "dumb" client spoke only html.
> >
> > You can read some of the general thinking about how to extend
> > OpenSearch
> > with microformats here:
> >
> >
> > http://www.opensearch.org/Documentation/Recommendations/
> > OpenSearch_and_microformats
> >
> >
> > And here:
> >
> >    http://blog.unto.net/work/opensearch-and-microformats/
> >
> > These days, while I'm still keen on seeing something done with
> > microformats,
> > I'd be content to simply see a more straightforward proposal
> > written (and a
> > working server implementation!) that incorporates a bit of georss,
> > gml, or
> > kml, etc.
> >
> > Pat, I know you've been having these chats with Gregor Rothfuss as
> > well
> > (cc-ed here).  My hope is that this converges on a draft soon, and
> > I'd be
> > very happy to publish it on the opensearch.org website for all to
> > share.
> >
> >
> > -DeWitt
> >
> >
> > On 3/14/07, Mike Rylander <mrylander at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Mike Rylander
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