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GeoRSS2KML, or: Fly to RSS locations using Google Earth!

Monday, September 25. 2006
GeoRSS version 1.0 was officially released. I have updated my RSS2KML XSLT to include Simple GeoRSS points.

Try this example, or roll your own.
Posted by Zoran Kovačević in technology at 22:54 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
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Automagically convert RSS to GeoRSS

Sunday, May 28. 2006
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?
Posted by Zoran Kovačević in technology at 19:47 | Comments (0) | Trackback (1)
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Finer grained geotagging

Friday, November 4. 2005
"I would like to argue now that RSS, ATOM, and even web pages SHOULD NOT encode location information at all - the possible exception being the encoding of observations. Otherwise the locations should be done ONLY by reference. Such a mechanism is simple, respects the notions of modularity and orthogonality in design and allows web feeds to "stick to their knitting"." -- geo-web.blog.com

Geo-Web makes an interesting point that I haven't yet though about, but have had trouble with while geoblogging.

When geotagging trips using one coordinate for the entry makes only summarized sense. With that I mean that one chooses a location representing where the content is about. It does not allow for geotagging parts of the content itself.

I would not go as far as to say that the entry itself should not be GeoRSS geotagged, because a summarized location can be useful metadata to the entry.

What steps are needed to implement his approach?

(thanks to ogleearth for the link)
Posted by Zoran Kovačević in technology at 11:18 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
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Serendipity Geotag plugin

Wednesday, October 26. 2005
Well, I finally found the time to make a first version of a geotag plugin for Serendipity:
- serendipity_event_geotag (allows for lat/long metadata for events, puts it in the rss2 feed, provides a link to a mapping URL like Google Maps)
- serendipity_plugin_geotag_gmap (shows a Google Map, shows the entries on the map)

This site is the demo for the plugins. I generally geotag the entries in the places category, the feed of which is shown in the Google Map on the top-right of this page.

update: I've turned the map off for now, because it somehow doesn't work in MSIE :-( Firefox users can check out this temporary demo site.
Posted by Zoran Kovačević in technology at 20:30 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (2)
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