[georss] Commas and radius in the spec.

[Mikel Maron]

  > 1. In http://www.georss.org/simple.html  it is stated in 3rd para, that:
 > 
 > << 
 > Some publishers and users may prefer to seperate lat/long pairs by a comma rather than whitespace. This is permissible 

> in Simple; GeoRSS parsers should just treat commas as whitespace. 
 > << 
 >  
 > I would clarify what is meant by the usage of commas: Is it meant only for Simple (or for all GeoRSS parsers)? Is it 

> permissible between *and* within pairs? My proposal: 
 > 
 > >> 
 > In Simple, commas are allowed instead of white spaces in order to separate lat/long pairs (like this <georss:point> 

> 45.256, -71.92</georss:point> or this <georss:line>45.256 -110.45, 46.46 -109.48, 43.84 -109.86</georss:line>). 

> Therefore, GeoRSS parsers of Simple should treat a comma as a white space. 
 >> 
 >

After a brief discussion, I included this clause in the Simple spec. I thought folks might prefer to use the comma .. but actually in practice (short as it has been), I haven't seen any use of comma to seperate pairs. Perhaps it should be rethought. Perhaps this is just adding complication, and a cluase that some GeoRSS aggregators might not even bother implementing. 



 
 > 2. Are commas allowed in lat/lon values? 
 > => I think not.
  
Permitting commas within lat/lon values was the idea behind using whitespace in coordinate pairs. I can see how it clashes with #1, if #1 continues to be permitted.



Though, again, perhaps this is an unnecessary complication. For GeoRSS .. could the world be satisfied with "." specified decimals.



 > 3. In  http://www.georss.org/model.html there seems that the explanation of the attribute 'radius' is missing. This 

> is just for completeness and to be consistent with figure 1 in top.
  
http://www.georss.org/trac/trac.cgi/ticket/4

-Mikel



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