[georss] Multiple GeoRSS representations in one feed?

[Jason Birch]

Wow,

I'm interested to see all of the discussion.  I can live with simple for
now, but it would be great if there were a "recommendation" that clients
display the highest-complexity feature they are capable of.  Then I
could embed both a simple feature and a gml feature in the same item (so
I don't need to worry about different ID's).  I do like the idea of
pushing the envelope, but I also have a responsibility to my citizens to
be as inclusive as possible.

As far as conceptually discrete features within a single item... you're
right, there are cases where a single concept (hospitals in a certain
region) occurs over multiple locations.  MultiGeometry would solve this,
but it would likely be abused by bloggers talking about unrelated
locations in the same item.  Perhaps there needs to be the ability to
tag Geo's with IDs and then reference them from within the article like
#mylocation1, #mylocation2 ?

I'm hoping to attach shapes to things like fire calls, new building
permits, featured parks or trails, etc, etc.

No site yet, but it's for work (City of Nanaimo).  I'm pretty lucky
here, but politics are still harder than technical...

Jason

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[mailto:georss-bounces at lists.eogeo.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Turner
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 08:18
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Subject: [georss] Multiple GeoRSS representations in one feed?

On 10/20/06, Carl Reed OGC Account <creed at opengeospatial.org> wrote:
> An interesting conundrum. Perhaps what we need is the simple ability 
> for a RSS/GeoRSS payload to provide a URI or URL reference to an 
> external package of content structured as a GML document.

Sounds interesting - though I don't know if I would call that a "simple
ability". :)

The simplest method would just be the inclusion of 2 representations of
the same "geometry" in a single feed. This allows current clients to
read & display.

Though another conflict would be - how does someone include multiple
Points or Lines for an item, but aren't necessarily connected? For
example, I want to include 5 locations of hospitals in a single item -
or do I need to make those separate items?

Andrew
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