[georss] WAS: GeoRSS Validation Service? RETURNING TO: multiplelocations and time

[Sean Gillies]

Andrew Turner wrote:
> On 3/2/07, Pat Cappelaere <pat at cappelaere.com> wrote:
>> Jason,
>>
>> We are talking about output formats here.
>> So best practices so far are:
>>  - Atom 1.0 + GML (limited)
>>  - RSS 2.0 + GML (limited)
>>
>> So we let's call them:  Atom/GML and RSS/GML
>>
>> - Simple vs complex is becoming a minor issue. On the table would be to just
>> have one that serves one community.  It is GML.
> 
> Let me be the first to cast in my vote of dissent on this. Simple has
> been embraced and is understandable by non-GIS professionals who want
> to map (let us call them 'Neogeographers'). It is the 'gateway drug'
> that gets them interested in the larger Geo-standards that they will
> grow into.
> 
> I assume there are existing tools that already handle parsing/creating
> full GML. Seems like having a "subset" of GML makes developers have to
> modify their parsers to handle just the subset is work. However, just
> being able to identify that this RSS/Atom item uses GML and then
> pushing it off on the full GML parser is an easy thing.
> 

Actually, Andrew, open source GML tools are rather weak. As far as I 
know, GeoTools has the only fully capable open source GML parser.

> ...

Cheers,
Sean

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