Redundant with location module?
jasonwhat - October 2, 2006 - 21:08
| Project: | GeoRSS module |
| Version: | 4.7.x-1.x-dev |
| Component: | Miscellaneous |
| Category: | support request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | by design |
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Description
I currently have the loaction module and gmaps installed. When I check my rss feeds it seems that locative data is already included in the feeds. How is this georss different than the one location already provides?
#1
Good question Jason. The new module supports the recently released standard for GeoRSS whereas the location.module was supporting the W3C geo which is older - and a couple of other namespaces that have been used over recent years. There is a concensus amongst a lot of people that we should be moving to something more flexible, hence the emergence of the Open Geospatial Consortium-backed GeoRSS standard.
At the moment, the functionality does overlap somewhat (though location module is required for the GeoRSS module to work) in that both modules add geographic information (of different standards, and ones which have been popularly used in the past) to Drupal feeds.
The short of it is that if you want your outgoing feeds to be compatible with other sites in the future, the recently released GeoRSS standard (which this module adheres to) is the way to go.
#2
Thanks for the answer. So there should be no issued with having both georss and locations inserted data in the feed?
#3
Nope, there is no issue with that. I've intentionally left out of GeoRSS module the other namespaces that the location module already caters for. Ideally these will be generated from the same place in the future, but for now they can happily run side by side.