In what appears to be the first use of “GeoRSS” in a book title, there is an upcoming book “Practical Google Maps Mashups with Google Mapplets, GeoRSS and KML”. The book won’t be published until this September, and isn’t yet listed on the Apress site, but you can see the Amazon listing here.
While this is […]
Joey Tracker is a nice little app for tracking the Tufts University shuttle bus. They’re running a real time tracking system from Ublip, and receiving updates on the location of the bus via GeoRSS, and mapping that with GMaps API. Nice.
InSTEDD is an “NGO Startup” formed by Larry Brilliant in 2006, focused on building and distributing innovative technology for humanitarian response. Dr. Brilliant is now the head of Google.org, which provided seed funding for the organization. InSTEDD emerged from a year of relative quiet, releasing some simple and elegant tools. Their approach so far […]
Chris Holmes gives a good rant about being a good GeoRSS citizen.
I was pleasantly amazed to find out that Apple’s DashCode includes a Project Template for building a “Maps Widget” that handles GeoRSS feeds and KML documents.
If you’re not familiar with them, Apple Mac OS X provides Dashboard Widgets - which are small HTML and Javascript enabled windows that can quickly display information such as […]
Andres has declared today Let Others Know about RSS Day. It may not roll off the tongue, but I think you know what to do .. if you’ve seen the light of GeoRSS, pass it on and evangelise the greatness of RSS and GeoRSS to your uninitiated colleagues.
The nice thing is that enlightenment is usually […]
GeoFeeder is a new tool making it very easy to convert proprietary and/or complicated GIS formats into GeoRSS. I don’t think there’s an simpler way to transform a ShapeFile into GeoRSS, which in the words of the GeoFeeder site is “the current defacto standard for web mapping”. It’s really cool to see a tool so […]
plasq’s Skitch“>Flickr has had GeoRSS support for awhile, but it was subtle in that it used to require you to add &georss=1 to the end of feed URL’s.
Dan Catt recently announced on his blog that Flickr now puts the links to the GeoRSS and KML front and center.
Look for the geoFeed link in the […]
minimap is a Firefox extension that adds a very feature rich geo-sidebar to your Firefox browser (also available as a Flock plugin).
The extension offers incredible integration with online mapping and search services. When you first open the extension, you see a Google Map to which you can add locations or just explore. You can […]
In this recent interview with Michael Jones at GCN, he was asked his opinion on GeoRSS, and he’s positive, but unfortunately gives some wrong information.
JONES: I think GeoRSS is fabulous. We’re totally supportive of that. The only issue — and it’s not a problem — is that RSS is a very simple mechanism. It says […]