[georss] GeoRSS White Paper

[Carl Reed OGC Account]

Good comments and continues the dialogue WRT how GeoRSS deals with what the 
IETF and OASIS folks call "civic location" as opposed to geodetic location. 
FYI, there is already an application that takes a standard RSS message that 
contains say a country and city name, matches that city/country against a 
gazetteer and generates a GeoRSS message using the Point geometry (either 
simple or GML).

Cheers

Carl

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marc" <marc at geonames.org>
To: <georss at lists.eogeo.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: [georss] GeoRSS White Paper


> Hi Everybody
>
> I think we have to be careful not to head too much into the gisRSS
> direction. Boxes, polygons and other gis entities are certainly useful,
> but the huge majority of rss producers and consumers are playing in a
> different field. News-feeds, housing-feeds, dating-feeds, job-feeds and
> so on, all of them would be much more useful if aggregators and
> rss-reader software could filter, aggregate and group feed items
> according to 'geo' entities like country code, state, city, etc. With a
> standard for these encodings geoRSS would make a big step forward, we
> just have to be careful not to make it too complicated for the
> mainstream user. RSS is after all a 'Really Simple Syndication'.
>
> Just my two cents.
>
> Marc
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