[georss] Multiple geometries in simple?

noiv noiv11 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 9 16:01:21 EST 2007


> In general I agree with Mikel and Ron, that GeoRSS Simple was
> designed for a single geometry, and you should probably play in the
> GeoRSS GML space if you're doing something more complex.

I tuned my wordpress blog to generate GeoRSS instead of RSS
and while focussing earth related topics I easily run into the question
of multiple geometries.

Example:
http://exploreourpla.net/global-warming/blog/heat-wave-in-europe-and-united-states.html

Feed:
http://exploreourpla.net/feed/

A planned application will use a full export of all articles
as GeoRSS and display all these geoLinks/geometries
linked to the content on a clickable 'map of climate change'.

But I'm not sure about correct XML - is there any validator available
capabable of proving right use of featuretypetag and multiples in GeoRSS GML?

And I disagree, turning a relation from 1 to N does not exactly lead
to more complexity. A programmer implementing a parser should
be able to write a simple loop and handle this situation.

But wether GML or not, it is quite useful to have a standard which easily
links textual content and geographic maps in both directions.

Torsten Becker - ExploreOurPla.net



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