Tyler,

Thanks for responding. As far as the XSD goes - I'm wanting to make
REST calls to the geoplanet service and then parse the results.
Typical web services and even very basic rudimentary XML formats
define a schema so that client apps can understand the XML data that
is returned. It looks like you guys have used Relax NG as your schema
format, but from what I can gather RNG is not supported nearly as much
as XSD.

Thoughts?



--- In yws-geo@yahoogroups.com, Tyler Bell <bell@...> wrote:
>
> Hi rwwade,
>
> GeoPlanet is indeed very much alive -- we're busy on the Yahoo! side
> creating services that build significantly upon it. In answer to your
> specific questions:
>
> -- No one has posted an XSD to the forum yet, so we haven't heard
> directly. I am assuming you're talking around an XSD for GeoPlanet XML
> -->HTML rendering rather than converting to another XML application.
>
> -- Geonames: I have huge respect (though never met) Marc, and the output
> of the GeoNames community. We've had GeoPlanet in Yahoo! for years
> however, and we wanted to open it up and get it out -- the offerings are
> therefore very similar, but I'll enumerate the at-a-glace differences:
>
> - GeoPlanet provides richer navigation of the geo hierarchy
> - GeoNames offers an open data dump (this is also our intention)
> - GeoPlanet has richer global coverage
> - GeoNames has more, and more granular natural features
> - GeoPlanet's Web service is more performant (this is a finger in the
> air estimate and I don't have numbers at hand to back it up)
>
> We're working on concordance so I can qualify this formally, and I am
> sure the GeoNames lads have their own assessment so don't take our word
> for it only.
>
> -- Tyler
>