[georss] Product Announcement: GeoRSS publishing - new in Live Maps

[Gregor J. Rothfuss]

Steve Lombardi wrote:
> Many thanks to those on this list that have assisted with this
> feature! We launched a new version of Live Maps today with GeoRSS
> publishing as a top feature. When viewing another users public
> Collection, there is a 'classic' RSS button (I saw the proposed
> GeoRSS Icon a little too late for this release! We'll update next
> time) to pluck a GeoRSS feed for the collection. Points, lines and
> Polys are supported. As an example, here is my collection of bike
> trails around Seattle:
> 
> http://maps.live.com/?v=2&cid=546E7E30AC2C5011!1749
> 
> And here is its GeoRSS feed:
> 
> http://maps.live.com/GeoCommunity.aspx?action=retrieverss&mkt=en-US&cid=546E7E30AC2C5011!1749

one small thing to fix:

http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmaps.live.com%2FGeoCommunity.aspx%3Faction%3Dretrieverss%26mkt%3Den-US%26cid%3D546E7E30AC2C5011%211749

> For more info, here is my blog post about the new features in today's
> update 
> http://virtualearth.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2BBC66E99FDCDB98!8495.entry
> 
> 
> our Map Control for developers still supports loading layers of
> GeoRSS of course. Later this month we will release our V5 Update to
> the map control with support for eventing on these layers and a bunch
> more stuff. Its actually out right now if anyone wants to have at it,
> but we are shipping the docs and SDK later this month
> 
> Thanks again, this list was instrumental in getting this feature in
> good shape.

congrats! this is looking mighty nice.

i was in fact looking for GeoRSS export in live maps recently, for our
recent georss launch. would have liked to add a live maps example.

you can now do:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=http://maps.live.com/GeoCommunity.aspx%3Faction%3Dretrieverss%26mkt%3Den-US%26cid%3D546E7E30AC2C5011!1749&layer=&ie=UTF8&z=13&om=1

if you are so inclined. i guess at some point you could do those 
recursively as well. ;)

-gregor