2008-11-12: Find KMZ/KML

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GE doesn't understand/know atom tags.

2008-11-17:

• Whole kml is parseable and seachable.
• Tags to include additional information in any GE Feature:
  • Atom Author
  • Atom Link
  • Description
  • Time primative - time coding, cannot be used by google earth.
    • Time Span - window with begin/end tags
    • Time Stamp - Instance in time when
  • Extended Data
    • Adding untyped data/value pairs using the <Data> element (basic)
    • Declaring new typed fields using the <Schema> element and then instancing them using the <SchemaData> element (advanced)
    • Referring to XML elements defined in other namespaces by referencing the external namespace within the KML file (basic) (other atom fields?)
  • Schema - holds custom metadata.
  • <address>...</address>
  • <xal:AddressDetails>...</xal:AddressDetails>
  • <phoneNumber>...</phoneNumber>

• <Feature>
  • <Container> - includes document/folder
    • <document>
    • <Folder>
  • <Overlay>
    • <GroundOverlay>
  • <NetworkLink>
  • <Placemark>

• Google Search extended
• Example site that has been indexed - also sent e-mail to this contact asking how long it took for their kmzs to be indexed.

to do:

• Add atom attribution to Dataspaces/kml/catalog information
• Modularize metadata for dataspaces like attribution so that it is easier to reuse
  • Can be maintained in one location and reused in many locations
  • can be changed/extended without harm to other metadata
  • Allows navigation along multiple dimensions
• DataFed RSS Feed for metadata into the wiki - wiki is aggregator

2008-11-14 Add description, atom:author and title to kmls for better site index Geo data index Google talk For Kari: programmer stuff after min 35..

2008-11-13

Created a Geo Sitemap for a few of the kmz's we have. Submitted it and it checked out. Need to figure out geo search next.

• Google sitemaps follow the http://sitemaps.org protocol

2008-11-12 Sitemap is a cooperation tool because it shares/exposes resources in a standard way allowing users to find geo data.

1. Geo Sitemap creates an automatic way to share/expose KML/KMZ/GeoRSS
   1. Create Sitemap and automatically update when new kml is created
   2. Register Sitemap on Google/other search engines?
2. Add microformats like date, author, desc,tags?... to KML or to Sitemap or both? Sitemap includes metadata about link like last update, relative impt. of link on site, change freq
   1. Microformat structure could be way to add structure on wiki, use rdf to combine to sitemap/kml?
3. How do we organize KML/KMZs that we already have?

Also need to create workspace for coordination of google earth project.

Geo Sitemap/Google Search API

• This allows kmz/kml/georss urls to be published to Google through Sitemap, in order to make it searchable in google earth and google maps.
• The google search api can be customized to only search for geographic files from particular domain.
• Youtube on indexing geo data

GeoCommonsallows, uploading of kml,csv to create a map as well as searching for map content by person or tag or metadata description. Also incorporates creates ISO 19115 and FGDC metadata from simple form registration (example).

Geotagged in delicious returns lots point data - no bbox.

Google Earth AQ Layer Clean Up