[georss] GeoAtom (split from Re: GeoRSS Location References)

[Sean Gillies]

Mikel Maron wrote:
> This is a great timely discussion. I actually have a need for a location reference construct for a project right this very moment. 
> 
> Our feed will associate an annotation with a specified countries, and those country borders will be stored in the consuming application.
> Whatever format we come up with is fine for me .. I slightly favor using atom:link, since it doesn't involve any new thing, just a definition of what it means in this context.
> 
> Another thing, seems like country borders are going to be widely needed. Wonder if we could think about a common resource for these, perhaps out of OpenStreetMap or Geonames.
> 
> -Mikel

At some point (post April Fool's Day) we should discuss whether we'd
want to promote the use of fragment identifiers in links. That could be
a neat solution for you. Keep one world borders KML document in the
client application with IDs for every placemark, and have entries link
to the placemarks like

<link href="world_borders.kml#Alabamastan/>

Sean