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[creed at opengeospatial.org]

This was posted to http://www.rss-specifications.com/blog.htm yesterday:

GeoRSS Converter 05/09/2006

The Geonames "RSS to GeoRSS Converter" reads the entries of an RSS feed
and searches the Geonames Database to find a location for the entry text.
If a relevant location is found, its latitude and longitude are added to
the RSS feed using the GeoRSS encoding.

 And if one follows that link:

One ends up at http://www.geonames.org/rss-to-georss-converter.html

which in turn:

The Geonames "RSS to GeoRSS Converter" reads the entries of an RSS feed
and searches the Geonames Database to find a location for the entry text.
If a relevant location is found, its latitude and longitude are added to
the RSS feed using the GeoRSS encoding.

using www.georss.org. W3C geo as the default but it appears that all 3
encodings are supported.

And from the geonames blog:

http://geonames.wordpress.com/

Cool and thanks to the implementors. The examples are much appreciated.

Cheers

Carl