cfis : Atom Makes a Better WFS

Comment on Atom Makes a Better WFS by Sean Gillies

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:58:08 -0700

And another big geographic service (OpenSocial) is launched without WFS-T.

Comment on Atom Makes a Better WFS by Todd Y

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 06:52:24 -0700

Great post and slides, thanks for sharing, I found them informative.

Any thoughts on Atom + KML? The KML 2.2 spec has some elements of Atom in it I’ve noticed, but not sure if it is done in a way that fully leverages Atom.

Comment on Atom Makes a Better WFS by Norman Barker

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:28:13 -0700

Hi,

I am between two camps, show me a Atom demo with OS Mastermap (GML) and the change only updates between servers (WFS-T) and it might help me make my mind up :-)

I am enjoying the debate though.

Comment on Atom Makes a Better WFS by Chris J

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:44:58 -0700

Thanks, Charlie. This was enlightening. I tracked the development of Atom early-on, then lost time/interest. It’s nice to know folks like you have found a great use for it in GIS. I’m very interested in following it now!

Comment on Atom Makes a Better WFS by Charlie

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:46:45 -0700

Hi Todd,

Seems like there are two use cases here.

The first one is use Atom Pub for an API, Atom for the container and then embed KML into that (the same as you would do for GML).

In the second case, you’re just using KML. So there is no API part and no need for a syndication format. KML borrowing some Atom elements is nice and all, but I’m not sure I see much point to it (in contrast, embedding KML into Atom seems a lot more useful, but then you are back to case #1).

Comment on Atom Makes a Better WFS by Charlie

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:50:58 -0700

Hi Norman,

For MapBuzz were updating maps with using AtomPub + Atom + GeoRSS.

I’m not sure there are any examples of AtomPub + GML (or AtomPub + Atom + GML) so its a theoretical discussion. But as my slides discuss, I think that’s a better route than the current WFS + GML.

So sorry, no examples yet.