[georss] GeoRSS GML used at triptracker.net

[Carl Reed OGC Account]

Gotcha -

Thanks.

Carl

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mikel Maron" <mikel_maron at yahoo.com>
To: "Carl Reed OGC Account" <creed at opengeospatial.org>; "Ziga Mahkovec" 
<ziga.mahkovec at klika.si>; <georss at lists.eogeo.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: [georss] GeoRSS GML used at triptracker.net


>I guess it's not clear in our docs. TripTracker has a GeoRSS Line as a 
>child of the root element, "feed".
> Some places in the docs specify that GeoRSS elements only apply to 
> Items/Elements, such as the UML graphic, and others show it as acceptable, 
> like the GeoRSS GML examples.
>
> I think this should be acceptable usage, we just need to make sure its 
> clear and consistent in the docs.
>
> Best,
> Mikel
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Carl Reed OGC Account <creed at opengeospatial.org>
> To: Mikel Maron <mikel_maron at yahoo.com>; Ziga Mahkovec 
> <ziga.mahkovec at klika.si>; georss at lists.eogeo.org
> Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 12:06:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [georss] GeoRSS GML used at triptracker.net
>
> Mikel -
>
> Why is the GeoRSS GML Line not allowed? Am I missing something?
>
> Thanks for providing clarity.
>
> Regards
>
> Carl
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mikel Maron" <mikel_maron at yahoo.com>
> To: "Ziga Mahkovec" <ziga.mahkovec at klika.si>; <georss at lists.eogeo.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 12:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [georss] GeoRSS GML used at triptracker.net
>
>
>> Hi Ziga,
>>
>> This is pretty cool -- to me, travel journals seems like a big 
>> opportunity
>> in mapping/georss.
>>
>> A couple issues on the use of GeoRSS in the feed.
>>
>> GeoRSS geometries are used in your feed multiple times per entry, and as 
>> a
>> child of "tt:photo".
>> The GeoRSS model allows for only one Geometry object in each Atom Entry
>> (or RSS item)  and
>> only as a child of the entry.
>>
>> Also, there are many existing namespaces for specifying photos in feeds.
>> For instance, MediaRSS
>> [ http://search.yahoo.com/mrss ] is becoming widely used.
>>
>> I'm not sure of the best way to resolve this for your feed. Perhaps each
>> photo would inherit geographic
>> data from its parent Entry, and if a photo had a different location than
>> its parent, it would have to go
>> in a seperate Entry.
>>
>> The GeoRSS Line for the entire feed is a nice touch, I like. However this
>> is also not allowed by the
>> current GeoRSS model .. though perhaps it should be? Seems like a
>> reasonable adjustment to the spec.
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Anyway sorry the majority of this reply is critiques .. lcause overall
>> this is a pretty cool use of GeoRSS.
>>
>> Mikel
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Ziga Mahkovec <ziga.mahkovec at klika.si>
>> To: georss at lists.eogeo.org
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 8:23:46 AM
>> Subject: [georss] GeoRSS GML used at triptracker.net
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I wanted to let you know that we recently implemented GeoRSS GML in our
>> TripTracker.net web service (http://triptracker.net).
>>
>> TripTracker is used for creating and sharing travel journals.  GPS track
>> logs can be imported to automatically geotag photos; nearby photos are
>> also grouped into geocoded trip entries.
>>
>> Trips are presented using a JavaScript map interface (similar to Google
>> Maps, but with richer photo presentations).  These maps render an Atom
>> feed containing GeoRSS GML -- we use <gml:Point> tags to present
>> locations of trip entries and photos; we also use <gml:posList> tags to
>> render GPS track logs.
>>
>> Here is an example of a GeoRSS feed:
>>
>>  http://triptracker.net/trip/263/georss
>>
>> And the resulting map:
>>
>>  http://triptracker.net/trip/263/map
>>
>>
>> This is work in progress: we're planning on making the GeoRSS output
>> compatible with other viewers and possibly add support for rendering
>> other GeoRSS variants.  Comments are welcome.
>>
>>
>> Keep up the good work,
>> -- 
>> Ziga
>>
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