[georss] Transport of Toponyms with GeoRSS

Marc marc at geonames.org
Thu Aug 17 11:02:21 EDT 2006


I think this problem is due to the lack for encodings of semantic 
geographic information in GeoRSS such as country, administrative 
division or placename. We have discussed this before and the discussion 
has been compiled in a draft :
http://georss.geonames.org/georss-draft.html

Not only could semantic geographic information in GeoRSS be used to 
display labels but also for fundamental use cases in automatic 
processing like filtering, grouping, prioritizing of feed items 
according to geographic criteria. We shouldn't discard this issue as 
'human readable' versus 'not human readable'. It is simply an important 
and missing feature in GeoRSS.

Cheers

Marc



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