Foaf and Google Maps with foafMap

I mentionned about one month ago I wrote a frontend to RAP, called PHOAF, to easilly query FOAF files in PHP5.

Here’s the app I wanted to hack while starting the lib: foafMap, which displays users found in a FOAF profile on a Google Map.

This first version is really basic, but I plan to improve it in the future[1] (avatars, auto-zoom on main foaf user, expanding network …). And, also that’s a bit slow if you know a lot of people, as it fetch and parse each profile.

Yet, I think that’s another fun way to see how Semantic Web can help to share and re-use data among the Web.

Enjoy !

Notes

[1] Check posts tagged with foafmap from this blog … humm one more thing to add to my todo list: RSS feeds per tags

January 14, 2006 | Filed Under Semantic Web |  

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  1. Sango nini on January 15th, 2006 6:00 pm

    Foafmap, pour localiser vos connaissances

    Alexandre Passant vient de créer foafMap, une application qui affiche dans une Google Map les utilisateurs mentionnés comme connaissances (foaf:knows) dans un fichier FOAF. Sous réserve que ces derniers aient inclu leurs coordonnées de…

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