[georss] GeoRSS Location References

[Raj Singh]

On Mar 30, 2008, at 11:57 PM, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
>>>> 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.

but using the 'type' attribute sounds like a better place to solve the  
GML or Simple question. Instead of overloading rel, define different  
MIME types for them.

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Raj