[georss] So Many formats - so little button space...

[Josh@oklieb]

Depends on whether you want to generate or consume GeoRSS.

The former is simpler, since Atom is intended to supersede RSS and  
GeoRSS Simple/GML is intended to supersede "W3C Geo". Choice of  
Simple vs GML is whether your generator needs the capabilities of the  
latter. It should not need to be a user choice.

If you want to consume anything that a feed might throw at you, then  
your application should transparently handle those possibilities. The  
price of power...otherwise specify what you do handle and let users  
decide whether it's sufficient.

Cheers,

Josh Lieberman

On Jun 30, 2006, at 9:14 PM, Andrew Turner wrote:

> A question to implementers/consumers of GeoRSS.
>
> If you look through the entire 'menu' of GeoRSS options, there are
> quite a few combinations.
>
> You have at least 3 XML options: Atom, RDF, RSS2
> And 3 GeoRSS flavors: GML, Simple, W3C Geo
>
> Together, those examples alone comprise 9 possible, valid, formats.
> How has anyone addressed this plethora of options, or does anyone have
> a suggestion? Should a each XML option embed all 3 flavors of XML?
> Should an application choose 1 flavor of GeoRSS for all of its feeds?
> What about consuming? You now have to put the 3 flavors of GeoRSS in
> each of your 3 XML parsers.
>
> I understand all the history/legacy at work (well, aware *of*, though
> maybe not understand) to produce this problem. But I was also hoping
> people had some suggestion/ideas on how to cleanly handle creating,
> displaying (for a user to grab and add to their own
> reader/aggregator), and consume these options?
>
> The User Interface is probably the hardest to deal with. Fortunately,
> most readers understand all available formats, so users can just grab
> the biggest/brightest button for their feed.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew
>
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> Andrew Turner
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