[georss] Transport of Toponyms with GeoRSS

[Pat Cappelaere]

Mark,

This is an interesting discussion.
My big interest is in the support of user subscriptions based on geographic
areas of interests (AOI) for alert notifications... Like the OGC SAS/WNS :)

If you look at this pubsub example (http://www.pubsub.com/earthquakes.php),
It would appear that the feeds would have to be encoded with the
Flinn-Engdahl regions.  This would certainly avoid some expensive
geo-spatial computations.
I guess that the geonames example: http://www.geonames.org/geonamesRSS.html
is similar in a way.  This is akin to a granularity issue, I suppose.

The big deal with georss is that you can define an wider and precise
geographic area using gml.
I think we need both.
Could we get this to merge?

Pat.

> From: Marc <marc at geonames.org>
> Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 23:03:24 +0200
> To: Carl Reed OGC Account <creed at opengeospatial.org>
> Cc: <georss at lists.eogeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [georss] Transport of Toponyms with GeoRSS
> 
> Hi Carl
> 
>> If the georss group does decide to enable encoding of civil address
>> information, why re-invent the wheel?
> 
> I would not go as far and speak about 'invention' in the context of
> GeoRSS or RSS. All I am suggesting is using the country code invented by
> ISO, use it for the vehicle RSS and call this combination GeoRSS. (The
> same is true for ISO 3166-2, the postal code and similarly for the place
> name.)
> The really hard work, the invention and maintenance is done by ISO. They
> have invented the wheel. Using it in a xml schema is a piece of cake and
> I don't really care how this combination is called. I have therefore
> setup a draft for a "geonamesRSS" encoding :
> http://www.geonames.org/geonamesRSS.html
> 
> Any comment is welcome. Either here or on  the geonames mailing list :
> geonames at googlegroups.com <mailto:geonames at googlegroups.com>
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Marc
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