GeoRSS Weblog

A common question that comes up with someone first looking at the GeoRSS draft is why there is a space separator in the point field and not a comma, or other marker.

<georss:point>45.256 -71.92</georss:point>

Marc, of GeoNames succinctly answers:

The space as a separator is more robust and less error prone. In many
countries the comma is used as the decimal separator and there will be
many feeds with commas as the decimal separator. Using space as the
separator, it is possible to write a GeoRSS parser able to deal with
wrong input.