[georss] GeoRSS Location References

[Ron Lake]

On the other hand when you link to a web page in the usual web you have
no idea whether you will get 10 mbytes or 10 bytes.

Ron

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Subject: Re: [georss] GeoRSS Location References

Come to think of it, there is an optional length attribute (text)  
which can also help with this issue.

On Mar 31, 2008, at 12:19 AM, Joshua Lieberman wrote:

> 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.
>>
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