[georss] Resimplification

[Pat Cappelaere]

Wow! Unless you are just playing with it, may be.
For real applications and deployments, we have to!
We are reading the specs and everyone I have worked with has also.

You might be the exception!  You probably never read user's manuals either
:)
Pat.


> From: Andrew Turner <georss at highearthorbit.com>
> Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 18:47:36 -0500
> To: Pat Cappelaere <pat at cappelaere.com>
> Cc: Allan Doyle <adoyle at eogeo.org>, <georss at lists.eogeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [georss] Resimplification
> 
> On 3/2/07, Pat Cappelaere <pat at cappelaere.com> wrote:
>> Allan,
>> 
>> Actually the georss is one of the better OGC spec (may be because it is not
>> an OGC spec :) or is it?
>> Simple does however introduce the gml namespace and if you start there, you
>> will quickly need to go to http://georss.org/gml.html
>> which points you to http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=4700
>> which has a 601 page document, 33 different schemas...
>> Not really high school material.
> 
> No one reads the spec - raise of hands for how many here have...
> 
> Users/developers frequently copy the examples (ooh, pictures!) which
> Allan makes a point about more examples would be good.