[georss] A Proposal - KML & GeoRSS

[Sean Gillies]

Andrew Turner wrote:
> I guess I like posting long standards ideas on Fridays.
> 
> I put up a blog-post on my thoughts on coordinating efforts and
> interoperability of GeoRSS and KML and HTML (and others). Using each
> for their best purpose.
> 
> It boils down to:
> 
>  HTML : RSS :: KML : GeoRSS
> 
> http://highearthorbit.com/a-proposal-georss-kml/
> 
> The premise then being, you can use HTML for general browser viewing
> of geospatial content (perhaps using microformat or other), and link
> to KML for rich geospatial visualization, and use GeoRSS for
> syndication of updates of this spatial content (that links back to the
> KML and HTML).
> 
> Thoughts?
> Andrew
> 

I'll all for it. It's more or less what I'm doing with my Geo-APP toy

http://zcologia.com:8081/features.html

which I wrote about on the geo-web-rest list. I'm not using links in the 
head element, so that's one thing I need to do right away.

Cheers,
Sean