[georss] Georss extension

[creed at opengeospatial.org]

All -

A bit ago I posted what Google did for addresses in KML 2.1: They used a
schema fragment from the OASIS xAL standard (which is itself grounded in a
variety of national and international standards for addresses).

So, I would suggest that we not re-invent how to encode an address (or
some higher level civic location, such as country name). The issue, then,
is whether we include the schema fragment in the GeoRSS namespace with
proper reference to OASIS (this is what Google did) or do we reference
another namespace.

Cheers

Carl


> Raj Singh wrote:
>> It seems reasonable to put those tags inside the <georss:where> element
>> since they relate to location. They, of course, wouldn't be 'official'
>> GeoRSS elements, but good parsers should ignore anything they don't
>> understand, and as long as the required GeoRSS elements were included,
>> it
>> would still be well-formed GeoRSS.
>
> um, no. this is what namespaces are for. either it is documented and
> part of georss, or it is in its own namespace. undocumented elements are
> a really bad idea. just look at the unfortunate mess google made with
> kml and its undocumented elements:
>
> http://kml.tjworld.net/#ColorStyle
>
> -gregor
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