[GeoJSON] Unique media type for GeoJSON?
Erik Wilde
dret at berkeley.edu
Wed May 7 16:42:39 PDT 2014
hello sean.
On 2014-05-07, 11:55 , Sean Gillies wrote:
> application/json+geojson would go against the grain of media types that
> are already out there:
yes, http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6839 says that it should be the other
way around...
> application/vnd.github+json (GitHub)
> application/vnd.api+json (JSON API)
> application/vnd.collection+json
...and all of these do it the right way.
> We could register application/vnd.geo+json with IANA (following
> instructions at http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6838) which looks
> straightforward. We could add application/geo+json to the geojson I-D
> (http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-butler-geojson/) but then we're
> blocked until that makes it to RFC. I think I prefer the former.
> Any advice on the above, Erik?
the latter looks a bit cleaner, but in the end there's no real
difference: it's an opaque identifier using a '+json' suffix. so i think
looking at timing issues might be a good way to decide.
cheers,
dret.
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