[georss] Geospatial Incubator Group

[Ron Lake]

Hi,

I agree, provided you have already thought out HOW to extend beyond the
simple stuff - since that extension will happen rather quickly.

R

-----Original Message-----
From: Gregor J. Rothfuss [mailto:gregor at apache.org] 
Sent: July 19, 2006 10:07 AM
To: Ron Lake
Cc: Carl Reed OGC Account; Mike Liebhold; noiv; georss at lists.eogeo.org
Subject: Re: [georss] Geospatial Incubator Group

Ron Lake wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> If we want to build a solid foundation for geospatial extensions to
the
> semantic web - or flipped the other way to add more semantics into the
> GeoWeb - how is geoRSS a foundation.  It strikes me as too limiting
> unless you have a very restricted notion of what the Geo-Semantic Web
> means.  I would more favour directions like an OWL encoding of GML or
> OWL decoration of GML.

too limiting for whom? it boils down to whether you want to cater to GIS

professionals, or a couple orders of magnitude more people. starting 
with something simple that fits on 2 pages of spec strikes me as a 
superior idea if you want uptake. you can always come back and extend 
once people actually use the simple stuff.

-gregor

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