[georss] proposal for country code in GeoRSS

[Carl Reed OGC Account]

All -

I am not opposed. However, before going down this road I would strongly 
encourage the group to look at the work on civic address by the IETF (based 
on ISO 3166-1), specifically 
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-geopriv-revised-civic-lo-02.txt . 
PIDF -LO is another internet standard (draft) that uses two ways to express 
location - civic and geometry. The Geometry version uses GML 3.1.1.

Anyway, the IETF location group has had considerable discussion and 
investigation into civic address and location enabled internet payloads. 
This has been going on for some 18 months.

Would be silly to ignore all their hard work.

Cheers

Carl

>From the Abstract:

This document defines an XML format for the representation of civic
   location.  This format is designed for use with PIDF Location Object
   (PIDF-LO) documents.  The format is based on the civic address
   definition in PIDF-LO, but adds several new elements based on the
   civic types defined for DHCP, and adds a hierarchy to address complex
   road identity schemes.  The format also includes support for the
   xml:lang language tag and restricts the types of elements where
   appropriate.

And on Country:

Country Element

   The "country" element differs from that defined in [I-D.ietf-geopriv-
   pidf-lo] in that it now restricts the value space of the element to
   two upper case characters, which correspond to the alpha-2 codes in
   [ISO.3166-1].


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marc" <marc at geonames.org>
To: <georss at lists.eogeo.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 2:49 PM
Subject: [georss] proposal for country code in GeoRSS


> Hi
>
> I would like to propose a new country code element in GeoRSS. It would 
> help feed producers to add geo information without having to specify exact 
> lat/lng. Often a feed entry has a strong relationship to a country (or 
> more than one country) without having an exact geographical position. With 
> a country code element it would be possible to add geo information without 
> having to specify lat/lng. (news, travel, job, ....)
> Feed consumers at the other hand could use the country code to 
> filter/group/categorize/sort feed entries.
>
> Example :
>
> <georss:where>
>       <georss:countryCode>IT</georss:countryCode>
> </georss:where>
>
> or
>
> <georss:where>
>       <georss:countryCode>CA</georss:countryCode>
>       <georss:point>45.256 -71.92</georss:point>
> </georss:where>
>
> Any comments are welcome.
>
> Regards,
>
> Marc
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