[georss] GeoRSS GML used at triptracker.net

[Carl Reed OGC Account]

Perhaps we need a couple of "change requests" for group discussion?

Carl

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ziga Mahkovec" <ziga.mahkovec at klika.si>
To: "Mikel Maron" <mikel_maron at yahoo.com>
Cc: <georss at lists.eogeo.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 4:01 PM
Subject: Re: [georss] GeoRSS GML used at triptracker.net


> On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 11:01 -0700, Mikel Maron wrote:
>> Hi Ziga, 
> 
> Hi Mikel,
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Right, we did have second thoughts here.  We considered using custom
> tags for photos' locations, but reusing the georss namespace made more
> sense.
> 
>> Also, there are many existing namespaces for specifying photos in
>> feeds. For instance, MediaRSS [ http://search.yahoo.com/mrss ] is
>> becoming widely used.
> 
> We looked into various media RSS modules, but were missing tags for well
> defined time specification (e.g. ISO 8601), and geotags.
> 
> MediaRSS does look promising, we'll look into using it instead (and
> maybe use dc: extensions for the missing pieces).
> 
>> 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.
> 
> When a GPS track is present, each photo will have unique coordinates.
> And we would like to avoid having a separate entry for each photo;
> aggregating the photos into trip entries makes the feed -- and the user
> interface -- much more comprehensible.
> 
>> Anyway sorry the majority of this reply is critiques ..
> 
> Not at all, your comments are very helpful.
> 
>> cause overall this is a pretty cool use of GeoRSS.
> 
> Thanks!
> -- 
> Ziga
> 
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