Being an urban planner by training, here’s a GeoRSS post that warms the cockles of my heart from Jason Birch. I fought hard for polygon support in GeoRSS with municipalities firmly in mind. Jason seems to be a pretty capable GIS geek, as evidenced by the fact that he’s using FME to generate his feed–he probably has the talent to make this work even if he had to code it by hand.
I originally thought GeoRSS would allow assessing and permitting departments, which are traditionally more MIS shops, to participate in geospatial information architectures without having to use “real” GIS software. I still think that will happen soon, but until then it’s good to at least see the type of data they control–building permits–getting out of the intranet and onto the Web.