[georss] GeoRSS for earthquake/tsunami reporting

Christopher Schmidt crschmidt at crschmidt.net
Sat Dec 30 04:59:23 EST 2006


On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 11:42:04PM -1000, Brian Shiro wrote:
> GeoRSS gurus:
> 2) Is there any generic tag I could use to denote the earthquake  
> magnitude?  Perhaps I could use the <georss:radius> tag, although its  
> purpose isn't really clear to me.

This sounds like a case where you really want to extend RSS in a way
that is unrelated to its 'geo' nature: you want 'earthquake:magnitude',
not a term in the GeoRSS namespace. Although it might be possible to 
co-opt the :radius tag, that's probably the wrong way to go.   

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer



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