[georss] GeoRSS Location References

[Joshua Lieberman]

The hinting problem may have more to do with "is this a 10,000 node  
polygon" than "is this a point or a line", which isn't helped by  
geometry typing. We could help with that more by defining relation  
URI's such as "http://www.georss.org/rel/alt/hires"

-Josh

On Mar 31, 2008, at 12:10 AM, Raj Singh wrote:

> 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.
>
> ---
> Raj
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