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This online course is designed to introduce you to the various components of the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure, their functionality, and the standards and specifications necessary to implement them.

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GeoRSS

Endorsed Standard
Description
 

GeoRSS is a way to encode location in RSS and Atom feeds. It allows a user to perform geographic searches on feeds, or to map information found in feeds. GeoRSS is a lightweight format that can be added to existing feeds with little effort. It supports basic geometries (point, line, box, polygon) and covers the typical use cases when encoding locations.

CGDI endorses the GeoRSS Simple specification, which uses latitude/longitude based on the WGS-84 coordinate reference system. It is designed for use with Atom 1.0, RSS 2.0 and RSS 1.0, although it can be used just as easily in non-RSS XML encodings


Abstract Specification
 
Version
Date
Location

1.0

2006.07.19

http://www.georss.org/simple 


Status
 

2007.07.20

Endorsed by the CGDI Architecture Advisory Committee


Other Info
 

Please note that there are three specifications for encoding Geospatial content into feeds:

  • GeoRSS Simple from OGC;
  • GeoRSS GML from OGC; and
  • A GeoRSS specification from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C);

Only GeoRSS simple is endorsed for use in CGDI.

Effective 2008.03.10