Automagically convert RSS to GeoRSS

At Geonames, they have made a RSS-to-GeoRSS-Converter . This tool takes a plain RSS feed as input, parses it for matching entries in the Geonames database, and enriches the feed with GeoRSS. There also are webservice and Google Earth versions available.

Trying it out, a recurring thought comes up: how can accuracy be encoded in GeoRSS and the likes?
This entry was posted by Zoran Kovačević on Sunday, May 28. 2006 at 19:47. and is filed under technology. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own blog.
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  1. RSS to GeoRSS

    After a month of testing with many bug fixes and considerable accuracy improvements the RSS to GeoRSS converter is officially released today. There is still a lot of room for improvement and we will continue to work on it, but we think it has now reach...

    Weblog: Geonames
    Tracked: Jun 11, 17:44

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