[georss] Multiple GeoRSS representations in one feed?

[Jason Birch]

Boy, I feel like an idiot.

I think it was a combination of reading that one of the clients was only 
supporting points, and not scrolling far enough down on the page to read 
the line/polygon examples on simple.

Are many clients supporting anything other than points yet?

As long as I'm here and feeling silly...

Is there any way to represent donut polygons in simple?  I can just 
provide the exterior ring, but it would be nice to put holes where they 
belong.

And aggregates... I have quite a few parcels that were split by roads, 
and are actually part of the same legal feature.  I don't really need to 
have them joined as a MultiGeometry, but I can't tell from the XSD 
whether multiple geometries are allowed inside the "where".

Jason



Raj Singh wrote:
> Simple lets you do lines and polygons (and boxes). Does the site  
> somehow give the idea that it doesn't?
> The big thing Simple doesn't support is coordinate systems other than  
> WGS84 decimal degrees.
> 
> <http://www.georss.org/simple.html>
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> Raj
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> On Oct 20, 2006, at 4:46 AM, Jason Birch wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm looking at creating some GeoRSS feeds.  The nice thing about  
>> this is
>> that I don't have to create both a GeoRSS feed and a non-spatial feed.
>> One Atom feed will do.  However, I'm seeing a bit of a problem.
>>
>> It looks like many clients are only supporting simple rather than GML,
>> and I don't want to exclude the people using these clients.  After  
>> all,
>> it is a legal GeoRSS format.  However, most of the data that I'm  
>> working
>> with is either linear or area-based (parcels, trails, roads, etc) so
>> there is value in sending complex shapes instead of midpoint or  
>> centroid
>> pushpins.
>>
>> Is there any way that I can provide both a simple point and the  
>> full GML
>> line/polygon for an item, and count on the client to not render both?
>> Is it even legal GeoRSS to do this?
>>
>> I've read this thread, and it's not looking hopeful for me:
>> http://lists.eogeo.org/pipermail/georss/2006-June/000654.html
>>
>> It looks like if I want to support the largest possible user base I'll
>> need to put up two feeds...
>>
>> Please tell me I'm wrong :)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jason
>>
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