GeoRSS — lewism

update: am now using geomashup as I had some problems with geopress and comments together.
OK after some prevaricating, I’ve added the Geopress plugin (by Andrew Turner & Mikel Maron) and updated this blog with the coordinates of all of the previously mapped posts. I now have a georss feed.

This means that anything I locate in this way you can see in google or yahoo maps. Just take a look at my feed in google maps, I have about 30 posts on the map. As far as I know I am the first Architecture blog to enable this, I think it would be great if there were more though.

Previously, I had been using two plugins to save locations and to map them. The results you could see on my map page but the plugins were never fully implemented by me and there was no way to get the coordinates out of the map. Georss is an open standard and broadcasts my geolocation information so it can be picked up by anything looking for it.

This is only the start. I need to add a category and assess how to best show geolocated posts in the blog. Also a kml feed for Google Earth is next up.

My old plugins now superseded were Geo by Owen Winkler and Plug ‘n’ play googlemap by Yoongfook.

Comments

tricky says:

13 Jun 07 at 6:21 pm

Hi,

I was using the DITU plugin after Plug’n'Play stoped working on a WP upgrade. I wonder, does GeoPress put a visual MAP on the write post panel? Is there any other way to display posts on a map, instead of just the latest X entries via rss? Something like all posts on a category (not just a category feed). Amazing work you are doing here, i read you trough rss

best regards
lewism says:

14 Jun 07 at 9:57 pm

Tricky,
Thanks for the compliment, your blog also looks great. I have a translator program at work so when I’m back next week I’ll try and read a few, sorry I have no Spanish, I am working hard at learning Finnish at the moment.
Georss does put a map in the post page and option to put in every entry on the blog. I’m not sure if it can do an overall map yet but I think there are other services that you could use.
I didn’t know about DITU but two other plugins to look at are wikimap and googlemaps by miracles form heaven. I haven’t tried either of these but wikimaps looks quite powerful and includes georss.
Overall you are right reorss like the others have limitations. I plan on writing an analysis soon but there is no really great mapping plugin that really works with a blog as far as I have found so far.

Regards
axelspin says:

15 Jun 07 at 2:42 pm

Yep, sounds interesting

I am actually pushing in the agency where I am working to switch to GeoRSS.
Do you think that this format is better than the w3c http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/ ?

We use to plot seismic informations for the public using RSS and GoogleMaps meshes
You can look at it here

http://www.knmi.nl/seismologie/aardbevingen-nederland.html

Bye!
lewism says:

15 Jun 07 at 9:26 pm

Geopress writes to 3wc as well as GML. Is it better? Well you seem to know your stuff better than me, I’m still feeling my way. Your work is really interesting, which countries do you cover?