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...
This from https://bugreport.apple.com when trying to log in and submit a bug. So the bug reporting system has too many bugs to allow bug reporting?
Namespaces can get near on impossible to process sanely. http://blog.technologyofcontent.com/2010/01/json-vs-xml/ see the “Against XML namespaces” section
If this is the year of the POI, next year is shaping up to be all about geospatial REST APIs. ESRI has ignited the debate by submitting their REST API to OGC for international standardization. This will move the back room discussions out into the light, and really push the community to make progress....
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...