[georss] Styling GeoRss points

[Joshua Lieberman]

Chris,

I'll try to respond to this later in more depth when I'm not trying  
to finish three presentations at once, but there are usually several  
ways of specifying particular symbolizers and glyphs in SLD, not  
always consistently implemented. SLD certainly has its faults, but as  
a styling rather than style language it is unlikely to be superseded  
by KML which focuses on styled elements rather than styling rules  
(e.g. symbols rather than symbolizers). Rather, both languages need  
work so that they can be extended to more use cases such as you and  
Charlie describe.

More later, I hope, when I have time to do a more detailed  
comparison. It's an important and difficult topic for a number of  
reasons.

Cheers,

Josh

On Jun 4, 2007, at 6:49 PM, Christopher Schmidt wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 05:47:37PM -0400, Pat Cappelaere wrote:
>> Hummmmm!
>> I have not looked at the code in a while but I am remember  
>> displaying icons,
>> ship tracks, polys and a bunch of other things...
>
> Apparently my previous message didn't go through. Trying again:
>
> Sorry, I was unclear. What I meant is that for icon description, SLD
> does not support describing images that are non-square: that is, you
> can't set a different height/width for your image. Given the  
> current use
> of Markers in OpenLayers, I know this is likely to be a problem for  
> us,
> so I can't encourage its use in this way.
>
> It is possible I misunderstand the SLD spec, as happens so often :)  
> but
> I think that this is the case, and I think it blocks the use of SLD  
> for
> descirption of markers in GeoRSS.
>
> Regards,
> -- 
> Christopher Schmidt
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