Google Apps Hacks

308 GOOGLE APPS HACKS

This hack can be applied to either public or private Google Calendar feeds. However, you then trust

both Yahoo! and Google not to share the URL of that private feed, which is private only because it’s

hard to guess.

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As well as viewing your own calendar events on a Google Map, or in Google Earth, you can also view

events from other public calendars listed in Google Calendar. You can nd public calendars by using

the Search Public Calendars button.

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Google Map plotting the RSS output of the geocal Yahoo

pipe. The pipe’s KML output can be viewed in Google Earth.

I nd it’s best to use the “Get as RSS” link, which provides a GeoRSS feed, for Google Maps, and the

“Get as KML” link to use as a live Network Link in Google Earth .

When you add the feed to Google Maps or Google Earth, each geocoded item in the calendar feed is

listed, along with a corresponding marker on the map, as shown in Figure 11-42.

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The geocal Yahoo! Pipes interface (http://pipes.yahoo.

com/ouseful/geocal). Enter the URL of an RSS/Atom

feed such as a Google Calendar XML feed and the pipe

will geocode the rst location it nds within the title and

description elements of each feed item.