- From: Andy Mabbett <andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:13:36 +0100
- To: public-poiwg@w3c.org
On 28 June 2011 11:12, Jens de Smit <jens@layar.com> wrote: > I've read through RFC5870 quickly and the main issue I take away from > it right now is that it specifically (as you already mentioned) > addresses the encoding of points, and nothing more complex than that. > I believe many participants in this group have expressed a desire to > encode more complex geometries than that. For this reason, Raj Singh > has expressed his, also obviously biased :P, preference for > GML/CityGML (specifically, GeoRSS' profile of it), which also has a > rather concise method of expressing points, as well as methods for > extending this into lines and polygons. Because the default CRS there > is also WGS-84, I believe it is rather easy to map those point markups > to RFC5870 URIs. What about non-WGS84 CRSs, so that the schema is a) future-proof and b) capable of expressing PoIs on other bodies, such as the Moon or Mars? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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