Mapping Hacks

Add Location to Weblogs and RSS Feeds #38

Chapter 4, Mapping (on) the Web

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in both decimal and degrees-minutes-seconds (DMS) formats, making it

ideal for use by amateur GPS Orienteers.

Maporama’s business-services APIs promise a SOAP/XML interface. Their cov-

erage of places outside of the U.S. and Western Europe can be rather weak, but

Maporama holds great promise; it comes the closest we’ve seen of all the glo-

bal sites to “getting it” with regard to mapping services on the geospatial web.

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Add Location to Weblogs and RSS Feeds Hack #38

Here are two easy ways to add location tags to your weblog entries or RSS

feed items.

Weblogs and RSS syndication are drastically changing the way people read,

write, and experience the Web. As could be predicted, location figures

heavily into many of the sort of things people like to blog about: vacations,

sporting events, concerts, and so on. We’ll examine two simple methods to

add location tags to your weblog, using plug-ins for Movable Type and

Radio Userland, but the same principles apply to any RSS feed.

First, let’s have a closer look at geotagged RSS. RSS 1.0, 2.0 (http://blogs.law.

harvard.edu/tech/rss), and Atom are extendable with XML namespaces.

There are two commonly used namespaces to represent location: the RDF

Interest Group Geo vocabulary (http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/) and the

ICBM namespace (http://postneo.com/icbm/). The examples ...