[georss] Transport of Toponyms with GeoRSS

[Andrew Turner]

Allan Doyle wrote:
> 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.
>

This isn't a case of just prettifying the RSS though. As Josh & Raj
point out, it's attaching a name to the 'point' (or other) that can
then be used in the consumed data.

Unfortunately, the 'adr' and 'geo' microformats don't address this
either - as I was just recently discussing with them. adr and geo only
give the actual geographic information, but don't have built-in
handling of a 'name'. The one option that currently exists is putting
the adr/geo in an hCard, but that is rather heavy handed. I believe
they are considering adding a 'title' attribute so that one can
directly name a geographic location.

Andrew
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