[georss] KML into OGC

[Mikel Maron]

I've put my name to this request

and

Added a request for GeoRSS support in Google Maps .. everyone is encouraged with great fervor to add their name!

http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API/web/api-feature-requests?hl=en

----- Original Message ----
From: Marc <marc at geonames.org>
To: Jason Birch <jb-georss at jasonbirch.com>
Cc: georss at lists.eogeo.org
Sent: Monday, March 5, 2007 12:57:54 PM
Subject: Re: [georss] KML into OGC


> That sure would be nice.  I hope that the online community (in
> conjunction with OGC) can behave better in this regard than the
> proprietary GIS companies, some of whom still believe that having closed
> data formats gives them a competitive advantage.
This is true. It is our responsibility as users and as their clients to 
ask for it and to insist. They will never sit together and agree on a 
common format if we don't ask for it. If there are many competing pseudo 
standards or if we are locked in to a single vendor then we have to 
blame ourselves. It is our duty to engage in mailing lists, to raise our 
voice, to sign feature requests and to blog about it : 
http://geonames.wordpress.com/2007/03/04/web-map-api-standard/

Cheers

Marc

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