Thursday, February 13, 2003

Foaf geographical browser: not there yet but nearly ! In my monday post Apache maps its commiters based on GeoUrl: Lazyweb, give me a foaf based equivalent ! I asked the Lazyweb to create a little service that would take a foaf file as an entry and generate a map of the world with dots corresponding to the location of the people in the file, based onICBM header tag in their home page. Joshua Schachter commented Someone's done it: http://xml.mfd-consult.dk/foaf/explorer/?foaf=http://xml.mfd-consult.dk/foaf/morten.rdf joshua schachter [joshua-geourl@burri.to] First I want to thank Joshua for GeoURL , a great idea. His homepage is a model of impressive minimalism: the other thing he wrote is Reversible, "a self-aggregating directory/webring/wiki/newsthread system" I like the idea very much and will explore this as soon as I have solved my Trackback in radio issue.   Morten Frederiksen's FoaF Explorer is excellent ! It seems to fetch the ICBM already, and gives a web based presentation, with GeoUrls for the different urls that have it. All the infrastructure for what I have described is there. But the functionality is not there yet it seems.   Also he links to Jim Ley's foafnaut, a SVG based browser for foaf files: I was thinking about creating a foaf explorer using Marc Barrot's ActiveRenderer, but using SVG is a much better idea.   And Jim has a foaf people on the world map : it seems to be static. What I wanted is exactly that but dynamic, like the foafnaut, where I can submit a url or a foaf file to get the map. I'm sure Jim must not have generated the map manaully, and I hope he'll publish the service soon.   Thanks Joshua for this great comment and your cool soft. 7:08:03 PM    comment []