[georss] What's next--a query API

[Gregor J. Rothfuss]

Mike Liebhold wrote:
> Jeff Harrison wrote:
> 
>> it might be simpler (at least initially) for content providers to 
>> break thematic geoRSS content into separate feeds (Weather, Traffic, 
>> Yard Sales, etc.).
> 
> Interesting thought Jeff.
> 
> Heirarchical and  thematic browsing of GeoRSS will demand enormous back 
> end semantic processing to structure metadata  into content categories - 
> given the viral popularity of unstructured plain language tags people 
> will inevitably use, are already using on social knowledge sites like 
> del.icio.us, and flickr.com,  and at least one social mapping site - 
> platial.com which already enables users' own key word tags of GeoRSS points

both atom and rss have the category element, which can optionally be 
used with the domain attribute:

<category domain="http://del.icio.us/tag">yardsales</category>

this makes it possible to have multiple themes in one feed, and filter 
by them. maybe there could be a couple such examples on the site to 
encourage such usage?

-gregor

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