[Geojson] Assessing date/time ideas

andy e virtualandy at gmail.com
Fri Sep 30 18:28:57 PDT 2011


Maybe the ActivityStreams JSON spec can help us here?
http://activitystrea.ms/specs/json/1.0/

Anyone see an obvious way to extend ActivityStreams to include GeoJSON "sub
components" (don't know what that's called)?

andy



On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Kristoffer Snabb <
kristoffer.snabb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Sean,
>
> Expanding the domain to cover that of feeds helps,
>
> We use GeoJSON to carry 'soft' data of perceptions and temporary data
> connected to a place, route or area. In this case we have been using
> different media to describe the context of the place and specific
> perceptions of a place. Anyway, we have survived with adding a property of
> mimetype and url but it would be nice if there existed a standard way to do
> this in the GeoJSON specification.
>
> And we also expect that the perceptions of a place change over time and in
> that way they are created and they expire. A timestamp (feed) is also needed
> if we create time space diagram of routes. Although when we map daily
> activities of people they tend to stay many hours in one place in which case
> the create and expire time is again needed.
>
> Hope this clarifies something,,
>
> Kristoffer
>
>
>
> 2011/9/30 Sean Gillies <sean.gillies at gmail.com>
>
>> Time comes up in several places in the proposal fodder section of
>>
>>  https://github.com/GeoJSONWG/geojson-spec/wiki/Scope
>>
>> Which of these are equivalent (more or less) to the Atom/RSS notions
>> of a modification time stamp? Which are not? In combination with an id
>> (already recommended in GeoJSON) that kind of timestamp lets you sync
>> features between systems. With this in mind, the "adding media" bullet
>> suggests that some of us are looking for GeoJSON to expand its domain
>> to cover that of feeds. Is my assessment right?
>>
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