Geocoding RSS

Here is a discusion of 3 off-the-cuff proposals to add gecoding to a feed - from #geo

See bottom for some comments. [02:39] <@anselm> if you're just doing it correctly in a feed then you have [02:39] <@anselm> [02:39] <@anselm>  blah [02:40] <@anselm>  http://news.com [02:40] <@anselm>  hi there mom [02:40] <@anselm>   112.234  [02:40] <@anselm>   45  [02:40] <@anselm> [02:40] <@anselm> but [02:40] ok [02:40] <@anselm> the argument is [02:40] <@anselm> do it in the description area [02:40] <@anselm> so instead you do [02:41] <@anselm> hi there mom geo:lon=112.23 geo:lat=45 [02:41] <@anselm> and this makes it thru feedster [02:41] <@anselm> through technorati [02:41] <@anselm> works with any blog posting mechanism [02:41] <@anselm> and can be reasonably extracted by a smart aggregator or presentation layer [02:41] <@anselm> of course there are lots of possibilities such as [02:41] [02:41] <@anselm> geo:address="1234 may street" [02:41] <@anselm> but ... [02:41] <@anselm> i wouldn't wank on it... [02:42] <@anselm> am i talking about the same thing as you? [02:42] so if he looked in for all three, he would be covered :) [02:42] yes [02:42] <@anselm> oh yes

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Note that this is just an idea for a way to work with legacy blogging tools that do not support insertion of geolocation in a formal way.

There are lots of other ways - Kevin @ technorati @ #joiito suggests that simply a zipcode would be good enough for some simple applications - being either in the correct metadata or in the description area. Support a variety of methods in your parsers and let the best ways succeed or fail on their own merits.

There is more on the idea here:

http://lists.burri.to/pipermail/geowanking/2005-January/001279.html

And there is related discussion beyond that as well - see the mailing list site itself.

If you are a blogging tool developer then the better suggestion (instead of the above) is to actually add a clickable map interface as the way that people submit a blog post with location. Google maps shows that you can have reasonably rich html based map navigation - it should be not much harder to have reasonably rich map based blog posting. Mikel Maron's project and MapBureau's work may have examples of map based blog posting.

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Comments

 * I have implemented georss into the hotspots website rss using    -- Llynix
 * I have updated this to use  and removed  as per http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/ --Nosilleg 04:26, 2 Aug 2005 (GMT)