[georss] Scaling/size of geographical entities

[Allan Doyle]

On Jul 21, 2006, at 18:11, Josh at oklieb wrote:

> I don't think it is in dispute, exactly, and it is included in both
> GeoRSS Simple and GML. We then have the action in the Geospatial XG
> charter of adopting it in the geo ontology / vocabulary / namespace.
>
> There is the question perhaps of defining what the publisher means by
> radius. Does it mean "do your best to draw a circle even if the point
> is in WGS84 degrees and the radius is in meters" or does it mean
> "there is a 50m area of interest around this point" or does it mean
> "the real point of interest is somewhere within 1000m of the
> coordinates given". This is where the other tags can be helpful. Of
> course one man's ceiling is another man's floor.

Sorry, I guess it's "circle" that we eliminated as a geometry,  
leaving radius as a slightly squishy term.

	Allan

>
> Stay tuned.
>
> Josh
>
> On Jul 21, 2006, at 4:54 PM, Allan Doyle wrote:
>
>> I think radius is in dispute... I forget who likes it and who does
>> not. The issue, as far as I recall, is that GML does not have a
>> circle that's defined by a point and a radius so GeoRSS Simple can't
>> have one.
>>
>> 	Allan
>>
>> On Jul 21, 2006, at 16:43, Andrew Turner wrote:
>>
>>> Holger Knublauch  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks Joshua.  With a basic glimpse on this, I would hope that
>>>> the geo
>>>> ontology is extended with a geo:radius attribute: it is a low
>>>> hanging
>>>> fruit while having feature types is probably an overkill.  To
>>>> specify
>>>
>>> There is a radius in GeoRSS Simple:
>>>
>>>   <georss:point radius="500">45.256 -110.45</georss:point>
>>>
>>> It was at the bottom of the "Simple" page, so maybe you missed  
>>> it. :)
>>> Andrew
>>>
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