[georss] GeoRSS working session - Friday 30 March

[Carl Reed OGC Account]

Jason -

I passed the type error info to the SF editors.

Thanks

Carl


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Birch" <Jason.Birch at nanaimo.ca>
To: "Joshua Lieberman" <josh at oklieb.net>; <georss at lists.eogeo.org>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 11:33 AM
Subject: Re: [georss] GeoRSS working session - Friday 30 March


> Josh wrote:
> ------------
> Thanks for the examples. Encodings for them would be helpful. BTW, the
> purpose of multipoint, multiline and multipolygon in GML / Simple
> Features are precisely to express aggregate geometries of a single
> feature.
> ------------
> 
> But these aren't supported in the GeoRSS GML profile are they?  Yet? :)
> 
> SF multipolygon / multiline encodings would work pretty well here.
> They're fairly easy to build, and there's a limited set of
> representations so that clients wouldn't have too much additional work
> to do.
> 
> I don't think that allowing for any and all GML content (as an enclosure
> or inline) is something that would be widely supported by most
> publishers or clients.  It's just too open-ended.  It might work in an
> enterprise environment where you can set expectations, but I don't see
> it translating to the web in general for the same reasons that people
> are still publishing HTML.
> 
> BTW:  There's a typo on page 3 of the SF spec (OGC 06-049) if anyone
> cares: MulitGeometry->MultiGeometry.
> 
> Jason
> 
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