[georss] GeoRSS polygon/line elevation

[Andrew Turner]

That seems unfortunate.

What is the path for moving forward in the GeoRSS specification, esp
Simple? There have been several ideas and desires brought up on the
list:

 * Names/Regions/addressing
 * GeoRSS in HTML
 * Collections of points (in a single item)
 * Elevation for lines/polygons
 * others?

Andrew

On 1/24/07, Ron Lake <rlake at galdosinc.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There is no way to say in GML that every point in this line segment has
> some elevation without specifying such through each of the coordinates
> of the control points of the line segment.
>
> So your examples below in GML would be
>
>         <abc:Something gml:id="someID">
>                 <abc:position>
>                         <gml:Point>
>                                 <gml:pos>45.256 -110.45 313</gml:pos>
>                         </gml:Point>
>                 </abc:position>
>                 <abc:extent>
>                         <gml:Polygon>
>                                 <gml:posList>256 -110.45 313 46.46
> -109.48 313 43.84 -109.86 313 45.256 -110.45 313/>
>                         </gml:Polygon>
>                 </abc:extent>
>         </abc:Something>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Ron
>
>
> <georss:polygon>
>     45.256 -110.45 46.46 -109.48 43.84 -109.86 45.256 -110.45
> </georss:polygon>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: georss-bounces at lists.eogeo.org
> [mailto:georss-bounces at lists.eogeo.org] On Behalf Of Mikel Maron
> Sent: January 24, 2007 8:21 AM
> To: Andrew Turner; georss at lists.eogeo.org
> Subject: Re: [georss] GeoRSS polygon/line elevation
>
> "elev", and the other properties, were changed to elements from
> attributes, for version 1.
>
>     <georss:point>45.256 -110.45</georss:point>
>     <georss:elev>313</georss:elev>
> But the document at http://georss.org/georss/1/ incorrectly shows them
> as attributes.
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Andrew Turner <georss at highearthorbit.com>
> To: georss at lists.eogeo.org
> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 3:15:43 PM
> Subject: [georss] GeoRSS polygon/line elevation
>
> There doesn't appear to be any mechanism in v1 of GeoRSS spec to
> handle elevation in anything but a Point.
>
> <georss:point elev="313">45.256 -110.45</georss:point>
>
> but
> <georss:polygon>
>     45.256 -110.45 46.46 -109.48 43.84 -109.86 45.256 -110.45
> </georss:polygon>
>
> would be?
> <georss:polygon elev="313 310 306 313">
>
> nothing seems apparent in GML either - so I must just be missing it.
>
> Andrew
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