[georss] Transport of Toponyms with GeoRSS

[Allan Doyle]

On Aug 15, 2006, at 18:09, noiv wrote:

>> Couldn't you simply use the RSS "title" field for the link?
>>
>> Mikel
>
> Hi Mikel,
>
> thanks for input. Publishers use the title tag as a description
> of the content. I think there is no chance to convince for example
> Reuters and have toponyms only as title.
>
> Which tag is designed to describe the coordinates
> of a GeoRSS feed entry in a human readable way?
>

Is this perhaps the difference between RSS and a microformat? My  
impression is that microformats are meant to encapsulate information  
that is meant to still show up on the web page whereas RSS is really  
not meant to be "human readable" in the sense of being shown directly  
on a web page.

Thus if you have a microformat + CSS, you can see something useful.  
If you have RSS + CSS that's not always the case, you may also need  
some XSLT or some other processing to make it "pretty" again.

One of these days we need to work out the microformat serialization  
of GeoRSS. Ideally by working together with the microformat folks.

	Allan

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