[georss] Discovery of georss and other geographic information?

[Raj Singh]

If you have a hammmer, everything looks like a nail.

I say that because the hammer many people on this list have is information
architecture. We try hard to make everything elegant in the information
model. I think interoperability occurs best at the programmer level, and
therefore we shouldn't try to hard to make all encodings of geography
interoperable from an encoding standpoint. If it takes less time for
programmers to code with less elegant encodings, then that's the "right" way
to do it. 

This is a long way to say that I agree that GeoRSS should stop with support
for Atom and some other RSSes. If it's simpler to diverge from this encoding
to do microformats and/or XHTML, so be it.

My 2 cents,
Raj


On 8/30/06 10:38 AM, "Andrew Turner" <georss at highearthorbit.com> wrote:

> Stefan F. Keller <sfkeller at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> P.S. Still: Anyone who knows the status of GeoRSS (simple) as microformat?
>> 
> 
> What is the purpose of a GeoRSS microformat? Isn't Geo*RSS* targeted
> and meant for RSS/Atom? There already is a 'geo' and 'adr' Microformat
> with widespread support. If you're just looking at adding line,
> polygon, etc. to a Microformat then expand on geo, but it doesn't seem
> worth it, or a good idea, to try and force GeoRSS into XHTML.
> 
> There was a howto on possibilities of mixing RDF and GeoRSS:
> http://www.geospatialsemanticweb.com/2006/06/08/mixing-rdfa-with-georss