Author: Johan Hjelm <hjelm@w3.org>
Presenter: Joseph Reagle
Audience: Spatial Location
BOF (spatial).
Question: What is the status of W3C interest on this topic?
Global Positioning
Joseph M. Reagle Jr. (W3C/LCS/MIT)
on behalf of
Johan HJELM
Ericsson Research, User Applications Group
Currently visiting engineer at the W3C
Chair, CC/PP Working Group and WCA Interest Group
Problem: too many formats
- There are more than 20 data formats for position information today.
- This is confusing for developers and hampers development.
Realization: there need only be one
- One format could be transported in many protocols.
- It could also be included in profiles, like CC/PP.
- To make it machine readable, it should be XML.
- To integrate well with other metadata, it should be RDF.
- But if you do not want to learn XML and RDF, just treat it like a string encoding
format.
Solution: common lowest denominator
- W3C and OpenGIS idea: A common lowest denominator - with extensions for other
information
- The idea comes from the XHTML modularization: Create a base module with the absolute
necessities, then add whatever you need using XML mechanisms.
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