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A Common Data Set and Framework for Representing Spatial Location Information in the Internet

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Many organizations are currently working on how to express and provide location information to services and applications in the Internet. Each of them basically specifies their own way. This raises a problem – the various location information formats, services and applications will not be interoperable in the Internet. Interoperability can be achieved if there is a common way of expressing location information. This paper therefore proposes a common data set and an extensible framework of expressing location information in the Internet. The design aims at bridging various existing/proposed location data representation formats, as well as meeting the requirements of existing/proposed location-aware services.

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    Mari Korkea-aho & Haitao Tang

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Korkea-aho, M., Tang, H. A Common Data Set and Framework for Representing Spatial Location Information in the Internet. Cluster Computing 5, 389–397 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019712305191

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