[georss] Georss extension

[Pat Cappelaere]

Marc,

It is true that adding CountryNames, RegionNames and ZoneNames to the
associated codes might seem redundant.  Bit it does make information
explicit and human readable.  It does support disadvantaged clients so they
do not have to do the lookup and continuously access the web services.

The argument could also be made that the codes themselves are redundant when
you have position.  The client could do the lookup and retrieve at runtime
the information they need (assuming that the services are available)

Using one-liners/attributes is a good idea and would make the feed a little
more compact.  We ought to agree on it.

I do not know ISO addressed the i18n problem.  I am not too worried about it
right now.  I am much more interested in seeing a convergence in RSS feeds
and standardization of geocoding information for remote sensing feeds.

Pat.

> From: Marc <marc at geonames.org>
> Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 15:36:52 +0200
> To: Andrew Turner <georss at highearthorbit.com>
> Cc: <georss at lists.eogeo.org>, Linda Derezinski <linda at innovatesolutions.com>,
> <ows-4-swe at opengeospatial.org>, Stuart Frye <Stuart.Frye at gsfc.nasa.gov>, Dan
> Mandl <dan.mandl at gsfc.nasa.gov>
> Subject: Re: [georss] Georss extension
> 
> 
>> There are issues with your proposed geonames however. You still suffer
>> from the country code problem. Pat's example used BR, where did that
>> come from?
> 
> It is ISO 3166 : http://www.geonames.org/geonamesRSS.html
> 
>> Also, the countryName, is that assumed to be the English
>> country name?
> 
> Pat has added some additional elements for the sake of this discussion.
> I am not particularly happy with the countryName element as it is
> redundant to the iso code and it is more a i18n problem of the gui
> displaying the feed entry. It does not add any semantic information to
> the feed entry, so it can only be considered an optional and purely
> descriptive field. It this descriptive information is required, I would
> prefer to have it as an attribute of the countryCode element rather than
> as an element of its own.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Marc
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