[georss] GeoRSS Country Codes

[Carl Reed OGC Account]

Marc -

Totally agree with you WRT just a country name. In that case, would be silly 
to add the country centroid. Adding the country code would be a good idea. 
But as you point out, there is no standard way to do this in georss. If 
there were the ability to do so, were you thinking of using the ISO country 
codes (what is used by the IETF, W3C, and OASIS?)

Cheers

Carl

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marc" <marc at geonames.org>
To: <georss at lists.eogeo.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 11:26 PM
Subject: Re: [georss] GeoRSS White Paper


> 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
>
>
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