[grubstreet] pick a postcode, rdf it up

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hey grubstreeters, 

been a while i've meant to mail your list about possible interconnections
between grubstreet and my spacenamespace model london, and everything else
we could connect to. earle tells me things go well with you, that kake's
CGI::Wiki is done-ish and ivor wrote a nice wiki scraper, and that you're 
thinking about embedding RDF in wiki pages. nice ones! 

so in the spirit of co-operation i wrote a little RESTful utility that
shows you the nearest tube stations, and what lines they're on, from a
postcode. this is the sketch: 
http://space.frot.org/nearest_tube/?postcode=N2%209HL 

that shows you (as an RDF document) the four nearest tube stations to my
house, with the distance as-the-crow-flies in kilometres, and the lines
they connect to. or try this:
http://space.frot.org/nearest_tube/?postcode=N2%209HL&name=9%20The%20Copse&who=zool

there, if it doesn't find a thing of that name (case-ins) at that
postcode, it'll create it (as 'who' or as anon), and do the Streetmap.pm
lookup on it, and then work everything out. might you find that useful?   

my thing lives at http://space.frot.org/ , it is an RDF model of london,
with the tube system in it, which i use as the backend for a kind of
MUD-bot collaborative mapping thing. the plan is to connect it with other
location-based webstuff.       

i did a quick scrape of grubstreet when i started it, just the pub pages, 
so it has a 2month-old snapshot of the grubpubs with a few of them
connected to streets thusly: http://space.frot.org/a_space/George

so, what else can be done for each other? there is a whole REST api where
you can create and connect new things, and i would love to have more of
the grubstreet data in my model, and to be able to provide other useful
services to you along the 'nearest things of type Pub or that have
property Serves_Alcohol to here', that are pretty easy for me to do.  
 
so i could offer RDF feeds of new stuff of type X, or i could make calls
to your web API, or you could do the same things to me; if you RDF-up
grubstreet i could run a scutter over it and record your URIs in my
model, which i should be doing anyway.     
  
i would love to be able to refer to grubstreet resources from my model.
one thing i'm slowly experimenting with is filtering descriptions by FOAF
information ( http://rdfweb.org/foaf/ ); each user has a FOAF entry and if
they choose to include friendship-network stuff then they can set their
scope, so to speak to only include comments / recommendations from their
friendship network. more relevant when things get bigger...

it starts to sound like the thing i was banging on about at that london.pm
tech meeting so long ago! only the bicycle area network remains to be
implemented.

zx

p.s. i have been playing with RDF::Core::Parser lately it is pretty
straightforward for munging documents of the kind my api spits out 
--
"Common sense won't tell you. We have to tell each other." -DNA


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• [grubstreet] pick a postcode, rdf it up jo walsh 17:25 on 05 Jan 2003
  been a while i've meant to mail your list about possible interconnections

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