Re: [WSG] meta tag questions

2009-02-24 Thread Ben Dodson
I don't know about the Dublin Core issue but my gut feeling with geo.position and your example would be that of course the bed and breakfast in Pisa, Italy should have their location as the hotel will always be in the same place. I think that you've looked at the issue from the wrong side

Re: [WSG] meta tag questions

2009-02-24 Thread Bob Schwartz
Ben, I think that you've looked at the issue from the wrong side in that you assume it would only show in regional searches (e.g. an italian search engine) whereas in actual fact it should show up in a global search for that region - e.g. if I search for hotels pisa italy I would expect

RE: [WSG] meta tag questions

2009-02-24 Thread Ted Drake
://developer.yahoo.com/searchmonkey http://developer.yahoo.com/yql Ted _ From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Ben Dodson Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 12:38 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] meta tag questions I

Re: [WSG] meta tag questions

2009-02-24 Thread Robert Turner
Hi Bob, Bob Schwartz wrote: 2. geo.position: According to Wikipedia geo.position tags help in returning regional search requests, or as they put it: "It understandably makes little sense to look for a baker and find one who has his shop in a completely different town". If this is the case,

Re: [WSG] meta tag questions

2009-02-24 Thread Bob Schwartz
Hi Robert. Does the geo ontology/schema also represent properties for longitude and latitude? I wrote a geospacial inferencing engine a while back for inferring distances between points using the great circle method. From memory, I think it used the geo schema. If it is for a web page,

Re: [WSG] meta tag questions

2009-02-24 Thread Robert Turner
Thanks Bob, I've dug up some old java code that contained a snippet from the geo schema I used (in a javadoc comment). Here it is: /** ... * pRDF Vocabulary for describing points: * code * rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" *