Mike, I can give you some background, although I don't speak for the W3C. There is a published charter that covers the goals and scope of the Working Group. Here are the salient points:
http://www.w3.org/2008/06/geolocation/charter/ "The objective of the Geolocation WG is to enable Web access to the user's location information via a standardized interface or interfaces." "In addition to the variety of techniques for determining location, there are also a variety of ways applications may wish to use that information. For example, applications may: * retrieve a user's location only once (e.g. finding the nearest bank) * require several data points over time (e.g. recording a route) * wish to be notified when the user enters or leaves an area (e.g. determining preferences based on environment)" So relative to the formats you described below, this is more about a DOM API for determination of a device's geolocation as opposed to formats for describing location of content. Hopefully that helps clear it up as I see them as totally different things. Best, Ryan On Oct 7, 2008, at 12:31 PM, Mike Liebhold wrote: > Interesting that Mozilla has announced that Geode will conform with > the > "W3C geolocation API" > > this kinda slipped under the radar: > http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html > > Maybe someone from the W3C committee , above, can comment on how this > fits In to the grand scheme, in a world already served by geoRSS, > geoJSON, KML. GML ... > > > > > > > Mike Liebhold wrote: >> " Mozilla Labs will be announcing a new project, titled Geode, >> tomorrow. >> Geode is a Firefox add-on that understands location, enabling >> enriched, >> personalized, and localized content. >> >> For example with Geode, a user who is looking for restaurants while >> they >> are out of town will be able load up their favorite review site and >> find >> suggestions a couple blocks away and plot directions there. >> >> Mozilla’s Aza Raskin will be posting a blog to the Labs site with >> more >> details tomorrow. " >> >> http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10059557-2.html >> http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/06/geode-the-new-geo-tagging-project-from-mozilla-labs/ >> >> etc. >> _______________________________________________ >> Geowanking mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking > _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
