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

[Raj Singh]

Jason, I actually agree with you. From the outset I thought the  
GeoRSS GML was "simple" enough for everyone. But there's still a  
cultural divide on this issue between old-school GIS and the neo- 
geos. So far we've just had to agree to disagree.

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Raj


On Mar 2, 2007, at 1:39 AM, Jason Birch wrote:

> W3C is already recommended against, and I don't see a huge  
> difference between Simple and the subset of GML in GeoRSS, and feel  
> that Simple's continued existence just adds barriers for proper  
> client-level support GeoRSS.
>
> The GeoRSS brand of GML is not especially difficult to publish.   
> KML supports a broader set of geometry and time elements, and there  
> are many users taking full advantage of both of these.  As long as  
> you support a well-defined schema that publishers can read and  
> understand, you won't have any problems in that area.
>
> Supporting GML may be more difficult for client applications, but  
> you're already imposing that burden, along with the extra work of  
> having to support W3C and Simple.  By removing these formats from  
> the mix, you give clients the ability to legitimately support only  
> GML and give publishers the incentive to make the short hop to  
> limited GML.  You also set a less complicated GeoRSS baseline, from  
> which adding time and multi-geometries might not seem like so much  
> extra work or complexity.