[georss] GeoRSS Location References

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:41:56PM -0400, Raj Singh wrote:
> On Mar 30, 2008, at 11:25 PM, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> >> 1) Sean, does your proposal only work with Atom?
> >
> > Insofar as GeoRSS has meaning within RSS2, I think that <atom:link>  
> > oes
> > as well.
> 
> Thinking about it a bit more, I guess it works fine. It just feels  
> really strange using <atom:link> in RSS2 or RSS1.
> 
> >
> >
> >> 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?

Er, I said 'rel' while thinking 'type'. Though 'type' doesn't really do
that either, since 'type' is usually mime-type.

> 
> That's loading a lot of semantics into rel -- not only the fact that  
> it's a location, but also the type of geometry. And we'll also need to  
> signal whether the link is to simple georss or GML. But if people  
> really feel they need to know geometry type before dereferencing, fine  
> with me.

I don't really think you need to know it before dereferencing, but
that's something that others may nee to comment on.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer