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

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.