Dan, If you other other geo-enthusiasts believe that incubating these ideas within W3C and creating a W3C report on it would help, let me know. We are hoping to launch our new Incubator activity soon ....
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/ Regards, Steve -- Steven R Bratt, Chief Executive Officer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/ MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory The Stata Center / Building 32-G522 / 32 Vassar Street Cambridge, MA 02139, USA / tel: +1.617.253.7697 / fax: +1.617.258.5999 Dan Brickley wrote: > +cc: steve and ericm at w3c, who have a geo:interest... > > * Mikel Maron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-02-01 03:07-0800] >> >> MGeoRSS: Google Maps API Extension for GeoRSS >> >> I've reworked some code for parsing GeoRSS in Google Maps into a proper >> extension .. MGeoRSS [http://brainoff.com/gmaps/mgeorss.html] >> >> This can be quite useful for quickly building maps, like Node.London >> [http://nodel.org/seednodes.php?map=1], and promotes an interoperable >> geospatial web based on a common data format. >> >> With GeoRSS standardization [http://georss.org] in the works, its important >> to get the big map players on board to support. >> * How bout it Google -- are you ready to step up and promote GeoRSS directly >> in your API? * > > This is just fantastic! Really nice work, Mikel :)) > > Dan > > ps. "Free for non-commercial use."; I appreciate you've a living to > make, but can I put in a plea for opensource licensing that will > encourage commercial adoption/uptake too? > http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php makes this point as > "6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor ..." > - maybe GPL and offer other licenses by negotiation, for example? > _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
