[georss] GeoAtom (split from Re: GeoRSS Location References)

[Allan Doyle]

Having skimmed through all of this thread, I wonder whether it might  
make more sense to leave GeoRSS where it is and call the next thing  
GeoAtom?

Funny how GeoRSS is following the tortured development path that RSS  
did (is?).

Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, or something like that.

And, note that I'm liking the thread, I'm not against forward motion.  
I'm just concerned about what could wind up being a pretty confusing  
progression of speclets, all under the same name, otherwise.

	Allan


On Mar 30, 2008, at 11:18 PM, 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? Do we care?
> Personally, I'm for dropping support of all the other "legacy" RSS
> formats.
>
> 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.
>
> If the answer to #2 is not really, which I think it is, then I'm a big
> +1 on going with something like what's shown at http://atlantides.org/trac/concordia/wiki/AtomLocationByReference
> .
>
> ---
> Raj
>
>
> On Mar 28, 2008, at 8:03 PM, Sean Gillies wrote:
>> More specifics here:
>> http://atlantides.org/trac/concordia/wiki/AtomLocationByReference
>>
>> Sean Gillies wrote:
>>> I'm -1 on that one (origin:
>>> http://lists.eogeo.org/pipermail/georss/2007-November/001752.html,
>>> IIRC). -0 on the first, which is more of an interesting idea than
>>> something we should start implementing now.
>>>
>>> I think some standard link relations (ala
>>> http://lists.eogeo.org/pipermail/georss/2007-November/001755.html)
>>> might
>>> do the trick.
>>>
>>> Sean
>
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Allan Doyle
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MIT Museum