[georss] GeoRSS Location References

[creed at opengeospatial.org]

For those interested in Location by reference, the IETF GeoPriv and ECRIT
WGs have been discussing this for a couple of years. They have
requirements documents, approaches, and so forth. Check out
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-geopriv-lbyr-requirements-02


> Raj,
>
> 1) I don't want to blow off RSS 2.0 users, but it seems like the link to
> geometry idea is coming entirely from the Atom quarter. My own use case
> for it is connected to use of other features absent from RSS 2.0
> ("related" links, for example), so I don't have a need for a
> Atom-independent way.
>
> 2) Hinting the geometry type isn't important, but I think that hinting
> whether you are linking to a geometry entity or a "feature" entity (Atom
> entry, KML placemark) will be important.
>
> Sean
>
> 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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