[georss] Resimplification

[Pat Cappelaere]

> From: Allan Doyle <adoyle at eogeo.org>
> Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 12:08:57 -0500
> To: <georss at lists.eogeo.org>
> Subject: [georss] Resimplification
> 
> 
> On Mar 2, 2007, at 11:56, Pat Cappelaere wrote:
> 
>> Who are your customers?
> 
> I'm my customer :)
> 
>> Developers of Data Providers (IMHO)
> 
> Define Data Provider. USGS? Mass GIS? City of Boston? Local police
> blotter blog? Birdwatcher blog? High-school weather station?
> 
> I really care more about the end of that list than the beginning.

Then you really have a problem because the specs as written may not be
targeted to that high school level!  They should and I agree with you.

>> 
>> For standards to be accepted, they have to be simple for a data
>> provider
>> developer to implement on the server side and to build a client for.
>> 
>> We need more data providers out there.
>> 
>> We are going to have a hard sell to say:
>> 
>> Guys, you need to support:
>> 
>> 1. GeoRSS/Atom 1.0 GML Simple
>> 2. GeoRSS/Atom 1.0 GML Complex
>> 3. GeoRSS/RSS 2.0 GML Simple
>> 4. GeoRSS/RSS 2.0 GML Complex
>> 5. GeoRSS/Atom 1.0 KML
>> 6. GeoRSS/RSS 2.0 KML
> 
> Stranded on a desert island, I would pick these, in this order
> 1. GeoRSS/Atom 1.0 Simple
> 
> And I would not call it GeoRSS/Atom 1.0 GML Simple. I would prefer to
> call it GeoRSS.
> 
> I caution against a sentiment of "our list of choices is too complex,
> we have to throw a bunch of stuff out, so let's keep the most general
> thing."
> 
> Allan

But this is not our current message to data providers.
We are saying:
GeoRSS/Atom 1.0 GML Simple
GeoRSS/RSS 2.0 GML Simple

And then
GeoRSS/Atom 1.0 GML Complex
GeoRSS/RSS 2.0 GML Complex

And coming soon:
GeoRSS/Atom 1.0 KML
GeoRSS/RSS 2.0 KML

This is the current message to the data providers.  You are not stranded on
an island.
GeoRSS encoding is being used for WFS-Basic (or Simple).  Some clients will
ask for RSS2 or Atom1.0 output, right?
So now encoding might be simple or complex (depending on the feature set
being served)
And we need to support KML for the other users!

I guess I am talking as the GeoBliki Data provider.

This is my reality.
Pat.