[ckan-discuss] Conventions for Location related extras (Was Geographic Metadata)

Tue May 31 13:33:29 BST 2011

2011/5/31 Adrià Mercader <amercadero at gmail.com>:
> I'm bumping this and updating the topic of this discussion because I'd
> like to hear your thoughts about it.
> There were different things being discussed on the previous thread,
> and I would like to focus this one only on how to store location
> related information in a package.

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> I'm thinking of three possible extras (I don't really mind about the
> names: extent, location, geo...).
>
> * extent-text: The textual representation of the extent of the package
> We could discuss recommending a controlled vocabulary or allowing free text

This is basically location.unparsed from previous discussion. Suggest
at core level this free text though particular users could create user
interface in which this is restricted.

> * extent: The geographic representation of the extent of the package
> Probably GeoJSON, but also worth considering WKT
>
> * extent-ld: A Linked Data link
> I'm not really an expert on this side, but I guess it could be
> something like http://www.geonames.org/2635167/about.rdf ?

Like Will I'm +2. Probably have a mild preference for location over
extent but like you don't care too much :-)

Rufus