On 11/3/06, Michael MD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'd really like to find out if there are any emerging standards for tags related to place names. ... Wouldn't it be nice if the pages related to place names on Wikipedia (or any site that lots of people might link place names to) had geo markup on them and also some kind of standard markup for related place names and how they are related to each other? (something to say that suburb a is in city b is in state c is in country e).
Well, "emerging standards" suggests standards that are somehow moving forward or gaining traction. If the question is simply "prior work in the area", then there's a bunch. For example, the Geo Tags effort[1] suggests using the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names [2][3], which defines formal naming hierarchies. I have a sneaking suspicion very few people actually go through the bother for web- based stuff, but I haven't done the research to back it up. -cks [1] http://geotags.com/geo/geotags2.html [2] http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/ [3] http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/faq.html#relationships -- Christopher St. John http://artofsystems.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
