[georss] Fwd: dW Web services/XML tip: Let users page through your Atom feed

Raj Singh raj at rajsingh.org
Wed May 2 17:07:54 EDT 2007


Yes, codifying the query structure won't be hard, but getting the  
world to support geographic and time-constrained queries is the  
tricky part! I'm not trying to discourage the effort, just pointing  
out the hurdles. I'll see you over on the opensearch list to discuss.
---
Raj


On May 2, 2007, at 2:28 PM, Pat Cappelaere wrote:

> Exactly.  So it would be fairly simple to codify that so we support  
> the same
> geo-search capability using the same keywords (Bbox, keyword,
> timespan...)...
>
> Pat.
>
>> From: Allan Doyle <adoyle at eogeo.org>
>> Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 13:06:53 -0400
>> To: <georss at lists.eogeo.org>
>> Subject: Re: [georss] Fwd: dW Web services/XML tip: Let users page  
>> through
>> your Atom feed
>>
>>
>> On May 2, 2007, at 12:53, Raj Singh wrote:
>>
>>> I just had a quick read of the OpenSearch site. It seems like  
>>> it's an
>>> effort to put an interoperability layer on top of existing
>>> unstructured search engines. That's great, but I'm talking about
>>> defining a type of structured search--by time, geo and tag.
>>>
>>> Am I correct in seeing OpenSearch as being mainly about unstructured
>>> search?
>>
>>  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
>>
>>> ---
>>> Raj
>>>
>>>
>>> On May 2, 2007, at 7:58 AM, Pat Cappelaere wrote:
>>>
>>>> Raj,
>>>>
>>>> I had also sent some emails a while back regarding integration with
>>>> OpenSearch.  It does exactly what we are looking for and is
>>>> discoverable in
>>>> the browser. http://www.opensearch.org/Home
>>>
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