- From: Allan Doyle <adoyle@eogeo.org>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:51:45 -0400
- To: georss@lists.eogeo.org
- Cc: GeoXG GeoXG <public-xg-geo@w3.org>
On Jul 21, 2006, at 18:11, Josh@oklieb wrote: > I don't think it is in dispute, exactly, and it is included in both > GeoRSS Simple and GML. We then have the action in the Geospatial XG > charter of adopting it in the geo ontology / vocabulary / namespace. > > There is the question perhaps of defining what the publisher means by > radius. Does it mean "do your best to draw a circle even if the point > is in WGS84 degrees and the radius is in meters" or does it mean > "there is a 50m area of interest around this point" or does it mean > "the real point of interest is somewhere within 1000m of the > coordinates given". This is where the other tags can be helpful. Of > course one man's ceiling is another man's floor. Sorry, I guess it's "circle" that we eliminated as a geometry, leaving radius as a slightly squishy term. Allan > > Stay tuned. > > Josh > > On Jul 21, 2006, at 4:54 PM, Allan Doyle wrote: > >> I think radius is in dispute... I forget who likes it and who does >> not. The issue, as far as I recall, is that GML does not have a >> circle that's defined by a point and a radius so GeoRSS Simple can't >> have one. >> >> Allan >> >> On Jul 21, 2006, at 16:43, Andrew Turner wrote: >> >>> Holger Knublauch wrote: >>>> >>>> Thanks Joshua. With a basic glimpse on this, I would hope that >>>> the geo >>>> ontology is extended with a geo:radius attribute: it is a low >>>> hanging >>>> fruit while having feature types is probably an overkill. To >>>> specify >>> >>> There is a radius in GeoRSS Simple: >>> >>> <georss:point radius="500">45.256 -110.45</georss:point> >>> >>> It was at the bottom of the "Simple" page, so maybe you missed >>> it. :) >>> Andrew >>> >>> -- >>> Andrew Turner >>> ajturner@highearthorbit.com 42.4266N x 83.4931W >>> http://highearthorbit.com Northville, Michigan, USA >>> _______________________________________________ >>> georss mailing list >>> georss@lists.eogeo.org >>> http://lists.eogeo.org/mailman/listinfo/georss >> >> -- >> Allan Doyle >> +1.781.433.2695 >> adoyle@eogeo.org >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> georss mailing list >> georss@lists.eogeo.org >> http://lists.eogeo.org/mailman/listinfo/georss > > _______________________________________________ > georss mailing list > georss@lists.eogeo.org > http://lists.eogeo.org/mailman/listinfo/georss -- Allan Doyle +1.781.433.2695 adoyle@eogeo.org
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