[georss] GeoRSS adoption?

Joshua Lieberman josh at oklieb.net
Mon Mar 24 19:29:27 EDT 2008


Sean,

Very interesting on several counts. Will have a look.

Thanks

Joshua

On Mar 24, 2008, at 18:04, Sean Gillies <sgillies at frii.com> wrote:

> Apache Abdera (http://incubator.apache.org/abdera/) is an  
> implementation
> of GeoRSS that I never see mentioned in geo circles.
>
> I'm using Atom and GeoRSS to build out an ancient history "GeoWeb" in
> the digital classicist community. See
>
> http://horothesia.blogspot.com/2008/02/atomgeorss-for-interoperability.html
>
> Cheers,
> Sean
>
> Andrew Turner wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Mike Liebhold <mnl at well.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello GeoRSS list
>>>
>>> Here's a question, one of my colleagues asked me for a report she's
>>> writing:
>>>
>>> Aside from 20 million or so geocoded flickr pix, what are the big  
>>> apps,
>>> and statistics characterizing GeoRSS adoption?
>>>
>>> Anyone have any data or pointers? Even anecdotal information about  
>>> goog,
>>> Y!, MS, Platial, USGS, NOAA, et. al. use of GeoRSS  would be really
>>> helpful.
>>
>>
>> just some anecdotal notes:
>>
>> running list of georss sites/resources:
>> http://del.icio.us/tag/georss
>>
>> GeoPress has an increasing number of users, including some public  
>> media
>> services. There are also GeoRSS modules for Drupal, Joomla, and  
>> other CMS's.
>> Safe FME added it, and various other converters that make it an  
>> "accepted"
>> and "common" format.
>>
>> GeoNames charges for their RSS-to-GeoRSS at 4-credits per geotagged  
>> item
>> (where a credit is a geocoding query to their nominal system).
>>
>> There is also a growing use of the <georss> elements in arbitrary  
>> XML.
>> FireEagle is a recent service that exemplifies this. So it's also  
>> served as
>> a very lightweight format for including Geometry in XML.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any help!
>>>
>>> Cheers-
>>>
>>> Mike Liebhold
>>> Institute for the Future
>>>
>>
>>
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