[Geojson] Mime Type

[Sean Gillies]

Hopefully no one is using application/geo+atom. Atom's extensibility  
makes derived types unnecessary.

Sean

On Dec 18, 2008, at 6:55 PM, Andrew Turner wrote:

> Looks like application/json is used in the wild.
>
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt
>
> The general idea of putting "geo-" in the MIME type seems odd. On one
> side, that's the thing you put in namespaces and the like inside the
> content. On the other, it would be nice. Something like:
> application/geo+json similar to application/geo+atom
>
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Sean Gillies <sgillies at frii.com>  
> wrote:
>> We discussed it a bit, and punted. I think it would be good to wait
>> for consensus to shake out of some related discussions on the
>> rest-discuss and restful-json groups.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Sean
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Paul Austin <mail- 
>> lists at revolsys.com> wrote:
>>> Are there plans to register a MIME type for GeoJSON so that user  
>>> agents can
>>> distinguish between GeoJSON and regular JSON documents?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Paul
>>>
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