On 2010/10/05 4:45 PM, Landon Blake wrote:
A talk at the recent Location Business Summit and some reading I've done about the semantic web and microformats lately got me to thinking about a standard way to represent places, place names, place data on the web. (I must admit I'm a desktop software guy, not a web programmer.)
You might be interested in the O'Reilly book RESTful Web Services http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529260 The example used for chapter 5, "Designing Read-Only Resource-Oriented Services", is about 'serving maps': "I'll only serve maps that use a standard 2-D coordinate system: a way of identifying any given point on the map." -- Dave Patton CIS Canadian Information Systems Victoria, B.C. Degree Confluence Project: Canadian Coordinator Technical Coordinator http://www.confluence.org/ Personal website: Maps, GPS, etc. http://members.shaw.ca/davepatton/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
