GeoRSS in Google Maps | Christian Spanring

This is great news for simple location encoding formats: Google announced today native support for GeoRSS in the Google Maps API.

So to view a GeoRSS flavored feed in Google maps just type the URL into the Google Maps search field or add it as query parameter like this.

What’s next? Maybe GeoRSS feeds getting indexed for searches within Google Earth? Just imagine for a moment the amount of content you could access out of Google Earth…

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Shawn Miller

We've improved GeoRSS support in Atlas.

Most importantly we've fixed some Mozilla bugs and added support for more Geo encodings. GeoRSS Simple, GeoRSS GML, and W3C Geo points are now all supported. GeoRSS.org has the full scoop on all these formats.

We've also added the ability for Atlas to periodically update the feed on a schedule of your choosing. Tack on the "GeoRssUpdateInterval" parameter to tell us how often (in seconds) to check the feed for fresh data.

We've created a killer auto-update example using a GeoRSS feed we've created from public Twitter.com data. Sit back and relax as recent Twitter updates roll into Atlas automatically...

http://tinyurl.com/2z2dsl