Web of Data
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This issue is for discussion about the "Web of Data" Trend.
Great webinar this morning, George, Gobe, Ingo and team. I am putting this comment here in response to your request for input. Let's start the conversation at least.
Not quite sure under which Trend heading Map Markup Language, should be placed, but based on the discussion with the SDWIG in August (discussion starts at 21:59), I think it's worth discussing, at least in terms of what MapML is trying to achieve: integration of spatial data with Web browsers based on the cumulative best practices of our community. We in the Maps for HTML Community Group hope that, and are working towards the notion that MapML will be a joint standards project of the geospatial and Web communities. Indeed, neither MapML nor anything else in the target environment can succeed without such a collaboration.
Perhaps the trend itself could be identified not as MapML but instead as "map/feature awareness built into browsers and crawlers" (or something similar/pithier). The difference between this and the Geolocation API, for instance, is that the latter enables the browser to know where it is, whereas MapML implementation will allow the browser to know where other stuff is. As a result, the browser, or JavaScript extensions of it, could do useful things e.g. accessibility and geofencing come to mind.
MapML could be held out as an example of this trend. Perhaps it warrants a sibling row to this trend within the "Spatial Data on the Web" megatrend.
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