[georss] KML into OGC

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 08:11:41AM +0100, Marc wrote:
> Carl -
> 
> I from my side cannot be happy with this process. I want all of them to 
> sit together at a table and agree on a common format. They have managed 
> to do this for the sitemap protocol why can't they do it for geospatial 
> formats?

No one agreed on the sitemap format. Google published it. Everyone else
said they would support the spec that Google published.

> As a webmaster I don't want to become an expert in many competing 
> standards and I don't want to implement the same stuff in many formats. 

So you should encourage all spiders to read KML? Sounds like that's what
you're saying, anyway. There is only one search engine doing useful
things with structured geographic information -- Google -- and you want
all search engines to follow the same spec. So, everyone else needs to
play follow the leader.  

I don't see how anyone -- OGC or any other standards body -- can help
achieve what you want. Technically superior formats are tossed aside all
the time in favor of wider deployment, or 'embraced and extended' to be
different for corporate gain. Standardization -- early or often --
doesn't change this.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer