[georss] GeoRSS Multiple Locations, References & Excerpts

[Sean Gillies]

Andrew Turner wrote:
> Sorry for not posting about this to the list earlier, but I wrote up
> several proposal extensions to GeoRSS to handle: Multiple Locations
> for a single 'Story', References to externally geometries, and
> Excerpts.
> 
> My blog post outlining the ideas, and why the current proposal is
> framed as such is in this post:
> http://highearthorbit.com/georss-multiple-locations/
> 
> Sean Gillies has already countered with some good thoughts & suggestions here:
> http://zcologia.com/news/711/multiple-locations-in-georss/
> 
> I also created a Proposals page on GeoRSS.org site with links to the proposals:
> http://georss.org/proposals
> 
> I know these ideas have been discussed in the past, but then kind of
> petered out. But I think there is immediate interest in nominally
> agreeing to and implementing a solution in the very near term. In
> fact, I would like to suggest that we have something ready for
> Where2.0.
> 
> Also understand that this proposal is for "Simple" - I know there are
> GML people that will point to the semantics of the proposal and wag
> their fingers. I suggest to them to draft a tasty Semantic/GML
> parallel version.
> 
> Thanks!
> Andrew

Indeed, I'm -1 on this kind of multiple location. Geometries, with the
help of "featurename" and "excerpt", are turned into "lite" items that
no reader understands [1]. If it's going to be foreign to a reader, it
might as well be GML -- which already does all of this, of course (no
snark this time).

Feed threads (RFC 4685), on the other hand, are something that degrade
nicely for "dumb" readers. I wonder if this is where RSS and Atom geo
splits?

Sean

[1] GMaps *does* get the geometry items from an entry like Andrew proposes:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=http:%2F%2Fzcologia.com%2Ffiles%2Fmulti-location.atom&ie=UTF8&ll=32.694866,-98.789062&spn=40.508018,68.90625&t=p&z=4

but only by accident, and with great loss of information.