Tag Archive for 'GeoPress'

WordPress 2.1 Ella issues

Published on January 31, 2007 in Tech. Closed Tags: , , , .

Just a quick list of some issues I experienced after I upgraded to WordPress 2.1 Ella:

Insert a link/image into your post won’t work: an old cached version of the Rich Text Editor’s JavaScript file causes the problem. Clear your browser cache to reload the new JavaScript file and everything works fine (found here).

Ultimate Tag Warrior (UTW 3.1415926) tags vanish after comments are added to a post: resolved here.

Same happens to GeoPress locations, they disappear after comments are posted. To fix it search for

function update_post($id)

within the file geopress.php and add the following lines right after the opening curly bracket:

if (!is_admin()) return $id;
if (!isset($_POST['addr'])) return $id;
if (!isset($_POST['locname'])) return $id;

(obviously the same issue as above with UTW tags)

In my case those fixes worked perfectly and I’m a happy WordPress user again.

GeoPress, but now?

Published on October 18, 2006 in Geotech. Closed Tags: , , , .

Finally I figured out how to get the GeoPress plugin working in WordPress: the API keys are not optional, you MUST register at least to one (either Yahoo! or Google) in order to successfully add a location to your post. Otherwise the geocoder (the Yahoo! geocoder) won’t work or the map (the Google Map) won’t show up in the Admin-panel in WordPress.

So I now have some of my posts geotagged and the GeoRSS Microformat embedded in my feed, but now? Does it make any sense?

First obvious idea that came to my mind was that it would be nice to have a (optional) map somewhere in my news reader showing the geographic location of the posts I’m reading. It would allow me to select, for instance, all post referring to Vienna, in addition to browse the new posts by topic, tags, author, etc. as it does already.

Mapufacture and My Local Guru are the first GeoRSS aggregators I found. They still lack of content, but IMHO they hit into the right direction.

Though it doesn’t support geotagged blog posts so far, Platial’s Today Nearby section shows nicely how various types of geotagged information can be bundled and made accessible in combination with a map.

However, until major blogging and news platforms won’t integrate GeoRSS by default it will remain as a geek toy. Flickr (and loc.alize.us) showed the huge potential of users willing to geotag their content. It all depends on how easy and usable the feature is implemented.