On Sun 15 Apr 2007, Andy Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm currently thinking about how aggregation might work within a  
> wiki. For example it'd be nice to be able to tag pages with (for  
> example)
> 
> [[Meta:Location:57.234,-2.938]]
> [...]
> and then be able to present a map or calendar respectively for the  
> whole wiki that aggregates all the tagged pages.

OpenGuides does this for geo stuff; see for example a map of the Good Beer
Guide pubs in London:
  
http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?action=index;index_type=category;index_value=Good+Beer+Guide;format=map
or http://tinyurl.com/2b82d8

Since things in an OpenGuide know where they are, you can also find
things that are close to other things, e.g. sushi places that are near
a zone 1 Tube station:
  
http://london.randomness.org.uk/scripts/find.cgi?cat2=Sushi&distance=300&cat1=Zone+1+Stations&do_search=1
or http://tinyurl.com/2ctpqe

or everything within half a kilometre of Waterloo Station:
  
http://london.randomness.org.uk/search.cgi?os_dist=500&os_x=531000&os_y=179900&Go=Go
or http://tinyurl.com/2glqya

I don't know how MediaWiki stores its data, so I don't know how
difficult it would be, but it would be very neat if your widget could
do something like that too.

> I assume that if I get that right I'll have some ideas about extra- 
> wiki aggregation at the same time.

We've been tackling this by means of RDF output, but I don't know if anyone's
using our data in practice yet.

Kake
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