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Re: [Geo-Web-REST] GeoREST 1.0 Released!

ha...@sl-king.com (Haris Kurtagic) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:30:00 UT

Hi Sean,
Yes we did. I am not fully happy with REST in name, at least couple of
reasons. GeoREST is bringing more then just REST API, eventually we didn't
even published REST API yet. And I agree with you, REST API naming becomes
more and more abused. On the other side, learning about and working with

Re: [Geo-Web-REST] GeoREST 1.0 Released!

sean.gill...@gmail.com (Sean Gillies) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 09:20:31 UT

Jason, Haris:
Congratulations. Did you ever consider not branding your project with
"REST"? Just the other day I counseled some folks against doing so
because the term is inevitably headed down from the peak of the hype
cycle, watered down by too many insufficiently constrained "REST APIs"
and sucked dry of meaning by too many powerpoint slides of some lazy

GeoREST 1.0 Released!

ha...@sl-king.com (Haris Kurtagic) — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:52:53 UT

This is probably a bit press-releasey for Geo-Web-REST, but figured it
should go out to you folks anyway...
We are pleased to announce the first major release of GeoREST, a new Open
Source framework that works with existing open source libraries such as
MapGuide and FDO to publish and interact with geospatial data as web

Re: [Geo-Web-REST] Linking in GeoJSON

bcar...@gmail.com (bcarlso) — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:19:27 UT

+1 My thoughts exactly Sean.

Linking in GeoJSON

sean.gill...@gmail.com (Sean Gillies) — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:14:30 UT

Via JSON Birch, I see that ESRI developers are exploring the use of
links in JSON:
[link]
For example:
{
...
"source" : "http:\/\/gptogc.esri.com\/GPT 931\/rest\/find\/document?
f=pjson",
"more" : "http:\/\/gptogc.esri.com\/GPT 931\/rest\/find\/document?

Re: [Geo-Web-REST] Re: Fwd: Streamnets [An alternative to SOS?]

sean.gill...@gmail.com (Sean Gillies) — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:14:56 UT

Ah, right. Thanks.
I've tried to say this kind of thing before. What is a sensor if not a
little blogger? Let's connect them to the web using blog tech.

Re: [Geo-Web-REST] Re: Fwd: Streamnets [An alternative to SOS?]

cappela...@gmail.com (Pat G Cappelaere) — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:43:54 UT

Sean,

Yes.

I do not know of any SOS-T implementation so I would say yes (But this
is not the point)

Activity streams are atom feeds with defined formats.

Pat.

Re: [Geo-Web-REST] Fwd: Streamnets [An alternative to SOS?]

sean.gill...@gmail.com (Sean Gillies) — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:20:52 UT

You mean "sensor observation service"? That's read-only (right?) and
there's already an alternative to that in Atom. It's the observation
reporting method that seems new in "streamnets".

--
Sean Gillies
Programmer
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
New York University

Fwd: Streamnets [An alternative to SOS?]

cappela...@gmail.com (Pat G Cappelaere) — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:06:58 UT

Could this be an alternative to SOS?
Pat.

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Re: [Geo-Web-REST] Re: opensearch application/domain vocabularies

sean.gill...@gmail.com (Sean Gillies) — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:43:48 UT

You mean enumeration of categories (or "tags") in the OpenSearch
description doc? I think this is better left to the collection
description since categories are also a big part of the data creation/
editing story. It's like the DRY principle applied to data/service
description.

Re: opensearch application/domain vocabularies

jeremy.coth...@gmail.com (jcothran) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:47:35 UT

Thanks Sean, hadn't noticed the atom:categories functionality
[link] which I
think fits the bill for what I'll end up suggesting. It would be nice
if general web search,opensearch incorporated these types of
atom:categories(or something RESTfully oriented similar) as search

Re: [Geo-Web-REST] opensearch application/domain vocabularies

sean.gill...@gmail.com (Sean Gillies) — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:34:34 UT

OpenSearch has a 'suggestions" extension that could help a bit

[link]

At least you could suggest your different species when someone tried
"fish".

If you were using AtomPub collections, you could enumerate your
species, regions, etc using atom:categories:

opensearch application/domain vocabularies

jeremy.coth...@gmail.com (jeremy.cothran@gmail.com) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:27:31 UT

Was wondering if there is an opensearch oriented mechanism for
exposing and sharing just the vocabulary used in a RESTful URI/URL
construct? For example if I had a project that had fish species
(grouper,flounder,etc),regiona l habitat(gulf of mexico,west
florida,east florida,etc), and collection format(audio,video,catch

RE: [Geo-Web-REST] Re: A "where" link relation for HTML and Atom?

rl...@galdosinc.com (Ron Lake) — Mon, 11 May 2009 20:43:09 UT

I understand - but without clear semantics what can you do with the data
other than make a map and leave it to the reader to interpret it? A
location in relation to a document might mean - where it was written,
where the author lives, that the MAIN subject of the document concerns
the location referenced (although many documents might reference many

Re: [Geo-Web-REST] Re: A "where" link relation for HTML and Atom?

sean.gill...@gmail.com (Sean Gillies) — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:57:55 UT

In this case I'm actually more concerned that I'll be told by web
wonks that the more generic "related" is adequate for what I want to
than that "where" isn't specific enough.

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Sean Gillies
Software Engineer
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
New York University