"import cartography" takes a first crack at this question and promises more to come soon. OGC Filters are a query language in XML used by the GEO world. Join discussion...

A proposal for considering GeoRSS and KML as RSS is to HTML. Join discussion...

Rewriting the existing web to use REST is not necessary, because it works today without follow every tenet of REST. Although doing things more RESTful in the future is probably a good thing. Join discussion...

Comparison of various REST and ws-* features and a short list of uses cases possibly done better using ws-*. Join discussion...

A gathering of the major data points in the "Description Language for REST" debate. Join discussion...

Defense of WADL as yet-another-hypermedia-format (YAHF) along side of HTML, XForms, etc... Also mention the ever-elusive OPTIONS HTTP verb and a peak at a keyword calculator for Google! Join discussion...

Commentary on a description of REST as just a URL with a bunch of parameters using FeatureServer.org as an example. Join discussion...

An observation that REST is not necessarily bound to HTTP (author quotes Fielding's work), but only requires the pattern of HTTP: URLs and a small set of verbs. Join discussion...

A peek at some REST vs. SOAP debates of the past plus mentions of a few REST toolkits and recent statements from the W3C. Join discussion...

Review of the new book "RESTful Web Services". John highlights the book's suggestions for URI construction and more practical matters such as handling Transactions RESTfully. Quotes from the authors and contributors included. Join discussion...