I've been meaning to respond to this too. I completely agree that the "big" message for the GIS-centric crowd is to stop trying to control the information encoding. Unlike most geospatial data formats, we intentionally assumed that this would always be part of a more complete schema, and we trust the other schema authors to take care of everything but geography.
This is why I don't share Ron's worry about geoRSS getting out of hand. The geo part won't get out of hand because it will always stay the same, blithely encoding points, lines and polygons. People might go wild using geoRSS in all kinds of domains, but I don't see anything to worry about there. --Raj On 3/21/06 11:17 AM, "Carl Reed OGC Account" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I totally concur! Very eloquently stated. > > Carl > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Schuyler Erle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> * On 20-Mar-2006 at 9:53AM PST, Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] said: >>> >>> True. For me, I would stick with keeping "data" out of GeoRSS. I >>> wouldn't want to see GeoRSS evolve into something where we start >>> adding bits for data types, etc., then have things quite bloated and >>> added ad hoc, as Ron notes. >> >> I think there is a philosophical divide that the GeoRSS effort has >> been trying to bridge. >> >> On one hand, there are those of us who have been doing GIS and >> cartography for years, have come to the web through it, and tend to >> see data attributes as something you add to location. >> >> On the other, you have folks like me, who have been doing web for >> years, and have come to GIS (aka "geo" aka "locative media" aka >> "geowanking") through it, and tend to see location as something to add >> to other data. >> >> The two counterpoints in the GeoRSS discussion -- the W3C Geo >> predicates versus GML -- exemplify, I think, this philosophical and >> historical difference. The result, even in its somewhat bifurcated >> form, is fundamentally an agreement to understand and accept geodata >> syndicated from either philosophical direction. >> >> I think that this is a huge cultural victory and the participants in >> the discussion have every right to be proud. >> >> SDE > > _______________________________________________ > georss mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.eogeo.org/mailman/listinfo/georss _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
