[georss] Transport of Toponyms with GeoRSS

[Ron Lake]

Hi,

Now that is starting to look a lot like GML.  Your items are FEATURES
(in GML).

Cheers

Ron

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:georss-bounces at lists.eogeo.org] On Behalf Of Danny Ayers
Sent: August 17, 2006 12:26 PM
To: Josh at oklieb
Cc: georss at lists.eogeo.org
Subject: Re: [georss] Transport of Toponyms with GeoRSS

On 8/16/06, Josh at oklieb <josh at oklieb.net> wrote:
> Aye, there's the rub. What is it you are describing with a toponym?
> The resource described by the RSS entry (probably not in general a
> toponym) or the "feature-ness" of the resource which is bestowed upon
> it by GeoRSS.

What Josh said, and for what it's worth, with the luxury of RDF in RSS
1.0 it would perhaps be nicer to do it something like this:

<item rdf:about=
      'http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/8466?CMP=OTC-TY3388567169'>
  <title>Live Coverage XML 2005 (Tuesday Keynotes)</title>
  <link>http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/8466?CMP=OTC-TY3388567169</
link>
  <description>
          <![CDATA[A live look at the XML Keynotes and seminal talks.]]>
  </description>
  <dc:creator>Kurt Cagle</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2005-11-15T07:45:58-08:00</dc:date>
  <geo:location rdf:parseType="Resource>
      <rdfs:label>Albany</rdfs:label>
      <geo:radius>5000</georss:radius>
      <geo:point> 46.183 -123.816</georss:point>
  </geo:location>
</item>

i.e. the item has a location, that location has coords and a label.

Regretably in the drive for "simple" with RSS 2.0, an awful lot of
baby went with the bathwater (a boon for the markup prosthetics
industry).

But it should still be possible to encapsulate the same information,
either as Josh suggests as multiple flat properties (which would also
work as an Atom Simple Extension), or using the geo microformat
perhaps with eRDF [1] extensions to add the label ...but surely there
is a "label" construct in HTML or one of the other microformats that
could be recycled..?

Alternately something like the above might be feasible for a Complex
Atom Extension (perhaps defined indirectly through the RDF).

Cheers,
Danny.


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