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December 03, 2002
lazyweb idea 2: FOAP - Feel Of A Place
an RDF vocabulary, describing a place, and information about that place
(inspired by: FOAF, upmystreet conversations, and knowhere)
People are starting to create semantic webs of contact information. The idea of FOAP is to create descriptions of physical locations, and items of interest (shops, blue plaques, whatever) in those physical locations.
It would contain links to other FOAP descriptions of nearby places, and how they are linked (maybe how to get from one to another).
People could add descriptions of the area, good points, bad points, things to do, and also link their contact information to FOAP places.
This is sort of done at the moment - knowhere in particular, or it could be done via starting new forums in upmystreet - but it would be nice to tie it into the semantic web, and then we can create location browsers, overlays, and generally slice, dice and connect the information however we want it.
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