I am currently developing a forecast weather webpage and I would like to use Schema.org to tag the weather forecast of a given place. Is that possible?
I have researched over schema.org, but I haven't been able to find a type that could be compatible with the weather forecast properties such as:
Weather
Wind
Humidity
Degrees
The vocabulary Schema.org doesn’t offer specific types for describing the weather. You could always use the generic type Thing (and sometimes maybe its sub-types Intangible, Event, and Action), but it would probably lack suitable properties to represent what you want to convey. StructuredValue (and some of its sub-types) might also be useful.
In the issue Add vocab to support description of Weather it gets discussed if/how to enable this with Schema.org.
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I am currently working with Alexa Smart Home Skills and implementing an interface to various data that I already have in a database. For example, this was no problem for the temperature, since there is a known API for this:
https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/device-apis/alexa-temperaturesensor.html
But now I wonder why there is no API for humidity or brightness? Of course I could also use a PercentageController for this, but that would probably eliminate the pleasant voice support of Alexa? It's important to me that I don't need an unnecessary activation word, as would be the case with normal skills.
Is there any other way to query humidity or brightness via Alexa?
Thank you very much and best regards!
There is API for brightness : https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/device-apis/alexa-brightnesscontroller.html
Could not find an API for humidity. You will have to go with percentage controller only.
I know, the use case might be specific but more and more stuff in all industry sectors is digitalized—and so is the communication between different departments which sometimes talk in very different languages. I searched the internet, but I wasn't able to find a clear answer (either I didn't find the right search phrases or the internet itself just doesn't know).
Here's my scenario: I'm working with several departments which work with diagrams (for example a lighting setup). This diagram solves different purposes:
which devices are used?
where are they placed?
where are they pointing?
how are they configured (e.g. exposure)?
They tend to export their finalized diagram as either an image or a PDF— which is fine if you want to print it out but considerably less helpful if another department (mine) has to work with the raw information. That's where I wondered if there's some kind of industry standard (SVG, XML, JSON, etc.) which is both supported by the programs these departments used and can be interpreted by some sort of programming language. Do you know anything like that?
Thanks in advance!
I want to use json ld micro-data from schema.org to reference images on my website but at the same time retrieve the json ld object in my Javascript to use it for others things. The problem is that I want to add custom fields that do not match any type in Schema.org. My question is, will search engines just ignore the fields they don't recognize or discard the whole micro-data ?
Short answer, yes they’ll ignore properties they don’t define, and it’s quite normal to use JSON-LD for other purposes, such as to drive your UI. That said, it’s best if these properties and types come from a known vocabulary, or even resolve to your own. It’s always good to test your data patterns first, using any of the online tools available.
Also, it’s not JSON-LD micro-data, they are actually two different things, both of which (along with RDFa) can be used to provide schema.org markup. JSON-LD is contained in a script element, the others are expressed using HTML attributes.
I use MapManager to show the route. MKroute doesn't work in my country, but it does in US. Can anyone tell me if this only work in only particular countries or it does work everywhere?
The best i can tell is that, for a route, you need a destination and starting point.
When a coordinate preferably the current user position does not have a POI in map mostly due to the fact that apple maps is not completely mapped in your place. By which i mean its besides from showing some main areas and streets, you have nothing other then this feature will not work.
If you know what i mean, then the alternative solution is Google Maps. It has a vast resource and it has information about things apple does not.
But it comes with a price, you need to learn to use Google Maps API which at this point is documented for Objective-C only.
And the callout is somewhat static in Google Maps which you can customize but the hard way.
I've got a table that I'd like to present. However, a lot the information in it is only useful in aggregated or visual form.
For example, the country column it itself is boring, but a aggregating all the entries of a country would be really useful. Coordinates are in there as well, so any solution should be able to present stuff on a map.
Note that the solution can be non-web, but I'd really prefer a web application everyone can access. What I've found so far is just the Google Maps API, but that's not very good at showing non-geographical information, is it?
Note that the table has a lot of dimensions, often nominal or ordinal (i.e. no numbers), so visual and plotting-focussed libraries are not that good.
EDIT: maybe that would help you, in absence of other answers
Today, this article popped into my RSS reader: Patterns of Destruction?: Visualizing Earthquake Data w/Tableau.
The author uses Tableau to visualize his data and mentions also Data Applied and GoodData.
Combine the Google Maps API with something like the Javascript Visualization Toolkit?
There are may libraries out there that might do the trick as well:
Raphael
Axis
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