[georss] GeoRSS Location References

[Raj Singh]

I'd love to get the location references issue decided soon. We've been  
sitting on this stuff too long. So let me summarize what I think is  
out there right now.

Andrew proposed a couple options -- http://georss.org/proposals/external_geometry 
  -- that preserved some of the GeoRSS language in the link (either  
<where> or the geometry element).

Josh and Sean support a strategy that's a more generic, universal way  
of handling external references (see quoted text below) by working  
with <atom:link>.

This leaves me with 2 questions:
1) Sean, does your proposal only work with Atom? Do we care?  
Personally, I'm for dropping support of all the other "legacy" RSS  
formats.

2) Is there any important advantage for software to know a little  
about what the referenced link will contain prior to dereferencing it?  
If so, then Andrew's ideas where you still have a <where>, <point>,  
<line> or <polygon> is useful.

If the answer to #2 is not really, which I think it is, then I'm a big  
+1 on going with something like what's shown at http://atlantides.org/trac/concordia/wiki/AtomLocationByReference 
.

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Raj


On Mar 28, 2008, at 8:03 PM, Sean Gillies wrote:
> 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