[georss] GeoRSS Location References

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:18:11PM -0400, Raj Singh wrote:
> 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? 

Insofar as GeoRSS has meaning within RSS2, I think that <atom:link> oes
as well.

> 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.

You can describe this in <atom:link rel="type">, perhaps? 

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer