[georss] KML into OGC

[Pat Cappelaere]

Chris,

OGC has started to realize that there is a mass-market to reach to be
successful (http://www.ogcnetwork.net/massmarket)
Raj and others have been working on those issues and how to provide for more
basic services. Example: WFS Simple that can output GeoRSS now.

Many people have heart-burns with WFS-Filter for some reason.  So we might
want to look at some simpler versions of it and we might see the convergence
of WFS/GeoRSS/OpenSearch as a very powerful mechanism for geospatial data
interchange on the web.

OGC/georss could drive this, I think.

Pat.


> From: Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at crschmidt.net>
> Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 09:11:17 -0500
> To: Marc <marc at geonames.org>
> Cc: <georss at lists.eogeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [georss] KML into OGC
> 
> 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
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