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

[Andrew Turner]

On 3/2/07, Pat Cappelaere <pat at cappelaere.com> wrote:
>
> I really want to stay away from a simple and complex.  There is only one
> format with some best-practices.  I did not hear "let's deprecate simple"

Actually there was :

> Jason Birch Said:
>
> What I read into this is that with the acceptance GeoRSS has gained as a defacto standard, it
> would be well served to deprecate all but the following:
>
> - Atom 1.0 + GML (limited)
> - RSS 2.0 + GML (limited)

Which is where my vote of dissent came from. I think GeoRSS is on a
great path and should continue to expand in areas that users are
requesting, or show "recipes" of how best to use GeoRSS with other
standards (Geonames, xCal, etc.). It's not time yet to start removing
things.

> What we need to consider now is: GeoRSS/KML for another distinct market.

Sean Gillies <sgillies at frii.com> wrote:
> Actually, Andrew, open source GML tools are rather weak. As far as I
> know, GeoTools has the only fully capable open source GML parser.
>

That's too bad. This seems like an area that the GeoRSS community
should really be pushing and contributing too. Many of us are working
on projects to implement GeoRSS support. If possible, we should be
spinning out the underlying parser/writers, or pulling in current
libraries and adding to them. And then pointing interested devs to
these libraries.

Andrew