[georss] GeoRSS for earthquake/tsunami reporting

[Brian Shiro]

What would be the potential pitfalls to using the radius tag as a  
stand-in for magnitude?

On Dec 29, 2006, at 11:59 PM, Christopher Schmidt wrote:

> 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