[georss] Discovery of georss and other geographic information?

[Stefan F. Keller]

Raj,

I agree that encodings can differ as long there is a common understanding on
the semantic level and as long 'best encoding practices' are fulfilled (what
currently is the case in GeoRSS).

But newly published encodings should consider established ones, which seems
to not the case actually (in W3C draft?). I know that standardization is
slow but programmers often don't care...

But my initial question was not only targeted to adjust GeoRSS to be
accepted as a Microformat. What I'm thinking about currently is
(auto-)discovery of geodata and services as documented here
http://www.gis.hsr.ch/wiki/OSGeodata_Discovery .

I'd like to discuss if GeoRSS icons are means to guide webcrawlers to
xml-encoded content or if there is a need for a 'friend' attribute in a (yet
to be re-defined ISO 19115) metadata as described in
http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/guidelines-static-repository.htm

-- Stefan

2006/9/4, Raj Singh <raj at rajsingh.org>:
>
> 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
>
>
>
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