Thu 8 Jun 2006
This morning, Adena Schutzberg, Executive Editor of Directions Magazine, published a great article on the basics of GeoRSS. Entitled, “Fun with GeoRSS“, this article is fundamental enough to help anyone with a basic knowledge of RSS to understand GeoRSS, but in depth to the point of demonstrating applications and offering future directions.
If you have not run across the term GeoRSS, the concept is quite simple. Take the basic structure of an RSS feed and add simple yet descriptive coordinate data to create geographic objects (points, line, polygons).
Whether this term is new to you are part of your old bag of tricks, this is well written article that deserves a look.
For those interested, I am including a few extra links here to GeoRSS information:
A great article from Mikel Maron on the who and what of GeoRSS
GeoRSS: Adding Location Awareness to News Feeds at aecnews.com
ACME GeoRSS Map Viewer
Mapufacture GeoRSS Feed Aggregator
GeoFeed Explorer: a Mashup of GeoRSS Audio feeds in Europe
MGeoRSS: Google Maps API Extension for GeoRSS
GeoName RSS to GeoRSS Converter
YAHOO! Map API GeoRSS Refernence
Mixing GeoRSS and RDF by Harry Chen
And here are a few links to give you a window into the recent discussion concerning the future of multiple GeoRSS standards:
OCG to assume GeoRSS?: Hobu, Inc.
OGC and the Little Guy: Digital Earth WeblogÂ
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