GeoRSS Weblog

Our own Mikel Maron recently announced his GeoRSS aggregator, Mapufacture.

Mapufacture provides a nice, simple, graphical interface for defining your “area of interest” by zooming in on a GoogleMap. After selecting your area, and creating the map name and description, you can then add feeds to the map.

Other unique features of Mapufacture include keyword search and search by area. When you search by keyword, however, the search results don’t give you an actual listing of the items (or count), or the search term used. Simple additions that I’m sure will show up quickly.

Any searches or maps can in fact be aggregated (unlike many other so-called “aggregators”), by using the supplied RSS output icon in a Mapufacture search.

Unlike Placedb, each of the feeds must use the GeoRSS specification. However, at this time it’s not clear what flavors of GeoRSS Mapufacture supports (Mikel?).

Another great GeoRSS aggregator by one of the major supporters and developers of the GeoRSS spec. Hopefully this drives further incorporation of geographic data into feeds.