Geospatial Semantic Web Blog

Certain configuration properties in iPhoto 6.0.5 have led to the speculation that iPhoto may soon to support geotags and display photos on Google Maps. This story was first reported on mactelchat.com, and later was submitted to digg.com.

An evidence offered by the iPhoto hacker (javaster) is that in the iPhoto configuration file, the property key “GPSMapURL” is defined with a Google Maps marker display URL. This URL seems to be related to the “Show” button that is part of the Photo Info dialog box in iPhoto (see below).

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Tim Berners-Lee was challenged by Peter Norvig, Google Director of Search, at a recent artificial intelligence conference sponsored by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

Tim’s belief is that in the future “Web developers will use semantic languages in addition to HTML. He stressed the importance of using persistent URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers) and RDF (Resource Description Framework) for identifying information. Consistent use of these specifications, said Berners-Lee, will allow the Semantic Web to maintain the collaborative nature the World Wide Web was originally intended to have.”

At the end of Tim’s speech, Peter challenges Tim with the question that is it really feasible to get Web developers to use semantic languages, given that many of them can’t really configure web server and can’t write HTML?

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