[georss] Georss extension

[Josh@oklieb]

There does seem to be a problem with xAL for this purpose as it does  
not include super-national divisions (region, zone). Can they be  
added to xAL, or would a political division spec be more appropriate  
for the particular descriptions that Pat is interested in?

An alternative is that georss 1.0 does have two feed-level or item- 
level QName properties which can be used to describe a feature type  
and name whether or not a geometry is being included, e.g.

<georss:featuretypetag>gn:region</georss:featuretypetag>
<georss:featurename>gn:Antarctica</georss:featurename>

this has the benefit of indicating more clearly that the "feature" of  
the RSS item is being described and not some other aspect of the RSS  
item. It still delegates to another spec the actual definition of  
types and names.

-Josh


On Sep 22, 2006, at 4:14 PM, Carl Reed OGC Account wrote:

> 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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