[georss] Georss extension

[Carl Reed OGC Account]

I would like to strongly encourage this group to consider using xAL (OASIS 
standard) for expressing additional location metadata (also known as civil 
address information). xAL has been adopted by Google for use in KML. The OGC 
is also collaborating with OASIS to develop GML schemas for xAL.

I do not want to minimize the work that Marc has done - excellent stuff.

And there are not substantial differences other than in the tags. For 
example,

geonames:countryCode>BR</geonames:countryCode>

would become

<CountryNameCode>US</CountryNameCode>

and

<geonames:adminName></geonames:adminName>

becomes

<AdministrativeAreaName>CA</AdministrativeAreaName>

I have attached an XML file that contains numerous examples of the use of 
xAL for a variety of countries. There are at least two issues that we need 
to be really concerned about - does the approach work anywhere in the world 
for any country and does the approach adhere to international (not just US) 
best practice (such as what is defined by ISO, used by other standards 
organizations) and so forth.

I know the editor of xAL, so if anyone has any questions about that 
standard, I am sure Ram would be happy to help.

Regards

Carl

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pat Cappelaere" <pat at cappelaere.com>
To: <georss at lists.eogeo.org>; "Marc" <marc at geonames.org>; "Dan Mandl" 
<dan.mandl at gsfc.nasa.gov>; "Stuart Frye" <Stuart.Frye at gsfc.nasa.gov>; "Linda 
Derezinski" <linda at innovatesolutions.com>
Cc: <ows-4-swe at opengeospatial.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: [georss] Georss extension


> For your review and EO1 imagery distribution (OWS-4 demo), I do not 
> believe
> that the georss metadata is enough for our users.  I am proposing to add a
> new namespace called geonames (since Marc from geonames.org is helping...
> Hope it is ok)
>
> This adds a lot of metadata to the feed in addition to position.
> Zones and regions are from Flinn-Engdahl (USGS).  This is a nice 
> complement
> over water...
>
> Also notice the nearBy places...
> This should considerably improve the search performance.
>
> Example:
>
> <feed xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml"
> xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#"
> xmlns:geonames="http://www.geonames.org" xml:lang="en-US"
> xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss"
> xmlns="http://purl.org/atom/ns#">
>
>  <title>EO1 GeoBliki</title>
>  <subtitle type="html">Sensor Web Enabled (SWE) Data Node </subtitle>
>  <id>tag:localhost,2006:GeoBliki</id>
>
>  ...
>
>    <georss:where>
>      <gml:Point>
>        <gml:pos>-43.4858 -13.1033</gml:pos>
>      </gml:Point>
>    </georss:where>
>
>    <geonames:geonames>
>      <geonames:countryCode>BR</geonames:countryCode>
>      <geonames:countryName>Brazil</geonames:countryName>
>      <geonames:adminCode></geonames:adminCode>
>      <geonames:adminName></geonames:adminName>
>
>      <geonames:zoneNumber>729</geonames:zoneNumber>
>      <geonames:zoneName>Antarctica</geonames:zoneName>
>      <geonames:regionNumber>50</geonames:regionNumber>
>      <geonames:regionName>Antarctica</geonames:regionName>
>
>      <geonames:nearBy>Sítio do Mato</geonames:nearBy>
>      <geonames:nearBy>Estreito</geonames:nearBy>
>      <geonames:nearBy>Alagoas</geonames:nearBy>
>      <geonames:nearBy>Muquém Ferrado</geonames:nearBy>
>      <geonames:nearBy>Santa Rosa</geonames:nearBy>
>
>    </geonames:geonames>
>  </entry>
> </feed>
>
> Is it ok?
> Marc?
> Pat.
>
>
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