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Subject: Re: Demo of using "where" link relation
From: James Fee <james....@gmail.com>
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http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/kmlSearch.html

that isn't exactly what Jason is doing, but it is probably what we
should be doing if we want to "participate" in Google's GeoWeb search.

On May 8, 4:05=A0pm, James Fee <james....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Google Sitemap uses <geo:geo> and <geo:format> to index "spatial"
> content.
>
> On May 8, 2:17=A0pm, Sean Gillies <sean.gill...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > As in my example, the "where" relation type would be used in documents =
=A0
> > that don't have KML alternates, but would like to indicate that they =
=A0
> > have a sense of place. I'm -0 on using 'application/json' docs as =A0
> > where link targets, but it probably wouldn't hurt.
>
> > What's the origin of the geo.* named meta tags in your HTML? I've seen =
=A0
> > them in Geonames too.
>
> > Thanks for trying it out,
> > Sean
>
> > On May 8, 2009, at 2:14 PM, Jason Birch wrote:
>
> > > Coolio...
>
> > > Is it your intention that "alternate" remain the way of specifying a
> > > resource's geometry and "where" be used for more general location
> > > tagging, or would where be used in place of alternate?
>
> > > KML is a better format for humans, but how do you see other
> > > representations (like the GeoJSON version in my url) fitting into
> > > this? =A0There is no precedence implied in my document, so I guess it=
s
> > > up to the client to decide...
>
> > > On 2009-05-08, Sean Gillies <sean.gill...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > >> Give it another try. I've implemented a partial fix, not fully =A0
> > >> parsing
> > >> the multigeometry, but no longer raising an unhandled exception.
>
> > >> On May 8, 2009, at 1:42 PM, Jason Birch wrote:
>
> > >>> Yeah, that's a bit of a stylization hack; those aren't conceptually
> > >>> multigeoms. I may pull this once google earth 5.0 goes mainstream.
>
> > >>> On 2009-05-08, Sean Gillies <sean.gill...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > >>>> Bug in my keytree code. It doesn't yet handle "MultiGeometry".
>
> > >>>> On May 8, 2009, at 1:12 PM, Jason Birch wrote:
>
> > >>>>> Sean, am I doing something wrong in my alt links?
>
> > >>>>>http://maps.nanaimo.ca/data/property/109332.html
>
> > >>>>> I'm getting a 500 server error.
>
> > >>>>> Jason
>
> > >>>>> On 2009-05-08, Sean Gillies <sean.gill...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > >>>>>> A have a rough demo of how one can traverse where and alternate
> > >>>>>> links
> > >>>>>> to find the location(s) of a document. Type a URL like
>
> > >>>>>>http://atlantides.org/where-demo.html
>
> > >>>>>> into the form at
>
> > >>>>>>http://where-link-rel.appspot.com/locate/index
>
> > >>>>>> and hit submit. It might crash for a different URL, or if the =
=A0
> > >>>>>> gods
> > >>>>>> are
> > >>>>>> smiling on me it might just show breadcrumb trails through where
> > >>>>>> and
> > >>>>>> alternate links to coordinate values.
>
> > >>>>>> --
> > >>>>>> Sean Gillies
> > >>>>>> Software Engineer
> > >>>>>> Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
> > >>>>>> New York University
>
> > >>>> --
> > >>>> Sean Gillies
> > >>>> Software Engineer
> > >>>> Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
> > >>>> New York University
>
> > >> --
> > >> Sean Gillies
> > >> Software Engineer
> > >> Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
> > >> New York University
>
> > --
> > Sean Gillies
> > Software Engineer
> > Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
> > New York University
>