[rdfweb-dev] From ACT TechNews: "The Merging of GPS and the Web"

[Graham Klyne]

[http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0721m.html#item9]

# "The Merging of GPS and the Web"
TechRepublic (07/14/03); Cagle, Kurt

Corporate technology leaders still have yet to exploit the integration of 
global positioning system (GPS) technology and the Web, though the 
technical standards for doing so are emerging. Map applications, for 
example, could be integrated with GPS through scalable vector graphics 
(SVG), where doors, walls, escalators, and other features are assigned 
specific coordinates. The GPSml markup language proposed to the W3C by 
Charon, Inc. and based on XML would allow developers to assign Web services 
applications to a specific physical location, so people with a tracking 
application could get updated directions based on their location, among 
other things. Because each GPS unit has a unique identifier, there is the 
potential that Web services tied to GPS could be exploited by marketers, 
pulling up a customer profile associated with the identifier each time they 
near a store. An identifier's importance could be better understood by 
associating it with a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), which could be 
used to assign applications to specific locations so they will be triggered 
when those locations are referred to. GPSml would provide the Web Services 
document for a number of possible context-relevant applications. The Really 
Simple Schema currently popular in the blogging community could be a way to 
publish Geeplogs, or GPS-enabled blogs that describe an area, or perhaps a 
person's travel through an area.
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