[georss] using categories for disambiguation

[Pat Cappelaere]

+1.
Pat.


> From: "Gregor J. Rothfuss" <gregor at apache.org>
> Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:35:24 -0500
> To: <georss at lists.eogeo.org>
> Subject: [georss] using categories for disambiguation
> 
> it occurred to me today that we'll soon have so much georss out there
> that there will be multiple items for the same location, across many
> different feeds.
> 
> take geotagged pictures as an example, or reviews of places. lots of
> people will geotag the eiffel tower, and may use the same lat / long as
> other people.
> 
> in RSS, there is the notion of a permalink to disambiguate an item, and
> to dedupe feed items. ideally, each georss item would have meaningful
> permalinks, but in the meantime:
> 
> it would be nice to have a lightweight way of specifying what an item is
> talking about, so that two items with the same lat / long can be
> clustered together also by topic.
> 
> it is unfortunate that georss invented its own tags for this purpose,
> featuretypetag and relationshiptag, when the category tag already exists:
> 
> http://atompub.org/rfc4287.html#element.category
> http://plasmasturm.org/log/452/
> 
> <category scheme="http://del.icio.us/tag/" term="restaurant" /> or
> <category scheme="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/" term="restaurant" />
> 
> are people interested to build this into their georss products?
> 
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