[georss] GeoRSS White Paper

[Marc]

Hi Carl

> 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).

If you are speaking about the geonames 'rss to GeoRSS converter', then 
yes I know about it, since I am the developer of it ;-)

http://www.geonames.org/rss-to-georss-converter.html

If a feed entry contains a country name then it does not really make 
sense to add lat/lng. What is the lat/lng for the US? Is it the oval 
office? Is it a centroid? What is the bounding box of the US?
I would prefer to add the country code instead, but there is no standard 
way of doing this. Adding lat/lng for a country is a kind of misinformation.

Cheers

Marc