PhotoRSS is a multi-faceted approach for syndicating photos, and making them more searchable.
PhotoRSS builds on formats such as HTML, XML and RSS, bringing to photos what has already been done for weblogs and text.
PhotoRSS is comprised of the following three things:
- Three extensions to RSS 2.0xmlns:photo, xmlns:album and xmlns:gallery are three RSS 2.0 xmlns extensions which define formats for syndicating photos, albums and galleries, so that your photos (albums and galleries) can be viewed with existing RSS readers.
- A new RSS-like syndication format for photosPhotoRSS is an RSS-like format that provides an extensible photo-centric mechanism
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I subscribe to the geowanking list, run by the guy who started geourl (currently down for repairs), and del.icio.us. (If nothing else he’s got a penchant for puns – check out the geowanking list server domain.)
There’s been a discussion about the “next gen geourl” on geowanking which has caused tempers to flare a bit, and the list mom to send out a virtual spanking or two.
My take on it is that there are two types of people on the list – theoreticians, and implementors – and they really don’t understand each other.
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Richard Soderberg posted the following email to the geowanking list on Wednesday. It’s a nice review of the various geo-syntaxes currently in use.
If you know of any others, please let me know.
What all is out there currently, and what’s the conglomerate of them all look like for a given page?
The conglomerate of <HEAD> modifications from what I’ve looked at so far:
<head profile=”http://geotags.com/geo”>
<meta name=”ICBM” content=”44.07,-123.08″ />
<meta property=”geo:lat”>46.1</meta>
<meta property=”geo:long”>124</meta>
<meta name=”geo.position” content=”44.07;-123.08″>
<meta name=”geo.region” content=”US-OR”>
<meta name=”geo.placename” content=”Eugene”>
</head>There’s only one way I’ve found, so far, to associate the data with
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Today on the geowanking list Sonny Parafina wrote:
“Raj put forward his planning use case that required lines and polygons. Could someone articulate a use case for “intermediate stages”? I think that would be a useful place start in addition to all the discussion. I’m still not sure we are all talking about the same problem set.” [emphasis mine]
The following was my response.
My wife Rachel was in the ad business for a long time, and has hammered into me the following mantra – start with a goal, then develop strategies to reach that goal, and finally devise some
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