[georss] GeoRSS Location References

Sean Gillies sgillies at frii.com
Fri Mar 28 20:03:32 EDT 2008


More specifics here:
http://atlantides.org/trac/concordia/wiki/AtomLocationByReference

Sean Gillies wrote:
> I'm -1 on that one (origin:
> http://lists.eogeo.org/pipermail/georss/2007-November/001752.html,
> IIRC). -0 on the first, which is more of an interesting idea than
> something we should start implementing now.
> 
> I think some standard link relations (ala
> http://lists.eogeo.org/pipermail/georss/2007-November/001755.html) might
> do the trick.
> 
> Sean
> 
> Raj Singh wrote:
>> +1 on the 2nd location references proposal that uses <georss:polygon>  
>> as an example. The first one, that uses <where>, is pretty convoluted.  
>> I'm a -0 on that one.
>>
>> ref: http://georss.org/proposals/external_geometry
>>
>> ---
>> Raj
>>
>>
>> On Mar 19, 2008, at 11:13 AM, 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



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