[georss] proposal for country code in GeoRSS

[Carl Reed OGC Account]

Marc -

There is no specific GML encoding for address. I have seen GML used to code 
addresses using a variety of address formats, including the FGDC Address 
coding standard. I do have some examples of a variety of address encodings 
using GML. I will need to search through some emails to find them.

In the meantime, check out xAL, an OASIS standard/model for addresses. 
Supposed to work anywhere in the world. The authors would like to see a GML 
application schema developed for this standard.

Cheers

Carl

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marc" <marc at geonames.org>
To: "Carl Reed OGC Account" <creed at opengeospatial.org>
Cc: <georss at lists.eogeo.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 12:12 PM
Subject: Re: [georss] proposal for country code in GeoRSS


> Hi  Carl
>
> I hope you don't mind that I continue this thread about address encoding.
> Do you have an url for the GML address encoding? All I was able to find is 
> an old (Feb 2003) 0.1 draft for it.
>
>> of expressing a address content standard as XML, I would look at the OGC 
>> OpenLS Core Spec Document as well as the OASIS xal draft. In terms of GML 
>> and GeoRSS GML, here is a snippet
>>
>>  <gml:city>Anytown</gml:city>
>>  <gml:state>MD</gml:state>
>>  <gml:zipCode>20910</gml:zipCode>
>>  <gml:countryCode>USA</gml:countryCode>
>
> The GML address encoding looks a tiny little bit unwieldy, as the 
> structure depends on the region of the word for which the address is 
> specified.
>
> In the above mentioned draft there is the also an example for a Japanese 
> address :
>   <gml:town>Anytown</gml:town>
>   <gml:city>Anytown</gml:city>
>   <gml:prefecture>MD</gml:prefecture>
>   <gml:postalCode>20910</gml:postalCode>
> The Japanese address has an element 'postalCode' instead of the 'zipCode' 
> element for a US address, an element 'prefecture' instead of 'state' and 
> an additional element 'town'.
>
> Rss is supposed to be a simple general purpose format and I prefer the 
> ietf draft where a common denominator for all regions and countries is 
> used : pc for zipCode or postalCode, A1 for state or prefecture, etc.
>
> Regards
>
> Marc
>