Location data is everywhere. From huge government databases of geographic features to your pictures in Facebook, it seems like almost every piece of information around nowadays is tagged with its location. However, it still seems that no one is effectively sharing information, or building the smart, next-generation systems that will surely rely on data...
Geography Markup Language (GML) 3.3 is now out for public comment. Not to say that this isn’t exciting on its own merits, but there’s an incredibly new feature in it — compact encodings! Clause 7 (page 16 in the PDF) has a great little section called “Compact Encodings of Commonly Used GML Geometries.” It...
The “Internet of Places” is a nice article putting forth an ecosystem of information and services to bring the geospatial world better in line with the Web. Or one could even say it suggests an information ecosystem where geospatial data would help the Web make a quantum leap in information linking and tagging. I...
Lots of people in the circles in which I travel talk about how great the web could be with more metadata, tags, structure, and links. How so many more mashups and cool apps could be built if people took a little more time to create data “the right way”. This article has an interesting...
