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Re: [grubstreet] locator type stuff in RDF

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From: Kate L Pugh
Subject: Re: [grubstreet] locator type stuff in RDF
Date: 17:25 on 28 Feb 2003
The plugins need a lot more thought; I'm letting my subconscious mull
them over for a bit, at the moment.

> [...] Geo::Distance [...] works quite fast and well but the API
> seems rather unstable... 

Interesting; I hadn't seen that before.  Looks to be aimed at people
wanting to work over relatively large distances?

> re glomming metadata / postcode-lat/long conversion ... i am still
> cheerfully using Streetmap.pm with default useragent string etc... but not
> for bulk converts, only very occasional lookup.

The WWW::Grubstreet scrapers that run the Pub Search and Grub Search are
also using an illegally-hoarded copy of Streetmap.pm - but Earle points
out that the main disadvantage of this is that it makes it a pain for us
to share our code with other people.  The best thing we've come up with
so far is to get people to type in OS co-ords as additional metadata when
creating/editing a grubstreet page.

Jo: I've given you automatic approval to post to the list now; let me
know if it seems not to be working.  Everyone else: Jo's not actually on
the list so you need to cc to her if your reply is relevant to her and
you want her to see it.

Kake


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