[georss] GeoRSS White Paper

[Marc]

Hi Allan

>Let someone else deal with the address parsing. There are some good  
>geocoders out there. Maybe we can convince the geocoder crowd to make  
>nice REST interfaces that take an address and produce a GeoRSS geometry.
>  
>
The geometry is an aspect of the viewer software not the feed producer 
and the feed. If a feed entry is about the US then it should not be the 
the job of the feed producer to think about the shape of the US. This is 
the job of the rss reader software. Some readers will mark the capital 
of a country. Others will not use a map at all and us some explorer like 
tree structure. Other readers will use shape information and highlight 
the counry borders on a map.
The feed should just contain information (country code US in this case), 
how the information is displayed is up to the viewer.

>44). The trouble with codes is that they can become out of date  
>quickly, too. What will the cc for Montenegro be? How long until IETF  
>or ISO catch up and add them? What happens when the code for Serbia- 
>Montenegro goes away?
>  
>
If we use the iso code (or another code) then we just lay back and let 
the iso folks deal with this problem. It is their business not ours.

Regards,

Marc