Re: Using feeds for time/event data?

["wkearney99" <wkearney99@hotmail.com>]

> hm... Bill... this wouldn't happen to be based on your 
> syndic8 feed? ! :)

Not directly.  But I am interested in feeds starting to contain some 
sort of geographic positioning information.  Time-oriented info is 
one of many logical next steps.

> I would think that whois could do this fine.  I was thinking 
> about adding this to Reptile eventually.

whois?  It's totally f'ed up.  Between the seemingly random way the 
various whois servers deliver replies to the random number of 
different sources (ARIN, APIC, etc) I don't see whois as being 
terribly useful for feeds.  The idea is good but using whois 
databases wouldn't cut it.

But that's contact info and that's a whole other thread...

I'm interested in the possibility of using feeds to deliver event 
data coupled with geographic positioning.  I'd like to be able to 
pick up a number of feeds and overlay them against a calendar.  I 
don't see anything in the existing simple RSS or the RDF formats that 
would help here.  Don't get started on the confusion that is 
dc.coverage.  It could be of use but seems like it's still in rather 
nascent form.

At it's simplest it would be interesting to pick up a series of items 
that had date and geographic info.  I'd like to be able to filter 
for "what's happening near location X on date Y".  It would be even 
more interesting to then take that geographic info and find what 
feeds are "near" that area.

-Bill Kearney