[georss] [OpenLayers-Users] GeoRSS and layers

[Andrew Turner]

> > Mikel Maron wrote:
> > I think it's a good idea to reuse existing standards and conventions when appropriate and
> > And "category" seems a good analogy to layer.

Sean Gillies wrote:
> On the other hand, I don't think that GeoRSS should get too concerned
> with feature symbolization. In my opinion, once you start mixing feature
> geometry and styling together, these elements are no longer metadata
> fields in the same class as "author", "published", and "updated", but
> become *content*.

I agree with this point. RSS has by itself category and GeoRSS
supports featuretypetag and relationshiptag, any of which can be used
to specify the appropriate metadata for what the geographic definition
is referring to. It is then up to the mapping
application/library/render to determine how to graphically display
those categories - or do whatever it will with them (sort, filter,
etc.)

Andrew