Web Infrastructure: .geo Domain

• Use DNS to encode latitude/longitude for any element in a hierarchical scheme.
• minutes.degrees.tendegrees.geo
• e.g. 37e47n.1e5n.10e20n.geo



 
 

• Technical Challenge: Indexing Metadata
• .geo domain used to index metadata about digital objects representing georeferenced entities (e.g. Alexandria Project metadata)
• Each metadata element contains URI links to the external digital objects
• Query metadata via a spatial extension to standard SQL
• Open system for contributing data / metadata