* 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 _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
