Microsoft supports GeoRSS

May 24th, 2006

Version 3 of the Virtual Earth Map Control has been released, with support for GeoRSS. Great news!

Quick data-binding for GeoRSS – Now, you can quickly and simply bind data to pushpins using the standard data format GeoRSS. Just point the control at your GeoRSS file or service and it will automatically manage the process of creating pushpins and pop-ups.

Read more about the release on the Virtual Earth Developer Blog.

Posted by mikel Filed in GeoRSS, Software, Reader

6 Responses to “Microsoft supports GeoRSS”

  1. Stephen Miessner Says:
    June 2nd, 2006 at 11:39 am

    HELP.
    I have research for more than 20 hours trying to understand GEORSS (more specifically how to load GEORSS into Virtual Earth and have it map out those coordinates.
    COULD SOMEONE PLEASE point me in the right direction.
    YES I have checked out the interactive SDK.
    Their example is sweet and awesome and exactly what I want to do.
    HOWEVER, when you click the source code - all it gives you is a text box to load your own GEORSS. I have tried using several GEORSS links to be loaded and it always says ZERO(0) items loaded.
    Here is a link to their interactive SDK - I was hoping they would provide exact source to their examples. However all they provide is basic/barely functional source code.

  2. Mikel Says:
    June 2nd, 2006 at 8:40 pm

    Stephen,

    Wish I could help here, but no more luck myself.

    Perhaps someone from the VirtualEarth team can help out .. with a tutorial, blog post, or bug report??

    Or perhaps ViaVirtualEarth has something to say about it.

    It would be really great to see some working VE GeoRSS examples!

    Mikel

  3. Mikel Says:
    June 4th, 2006 at 4:54 pm

    After a little testing, it appears that VE GeoRSS does work, just that the GeoRSS file must on the same webserver as the webpage. Aside, Yahoo Maps will proxy the GeoRSS request, and load it from anywhere.

    However, it seems that VE only support W3C GeoRSS at this point. Wonder what their plans are .. ?

  4. Craig Says:
    June 9th, 2006 at 3:43 pm

    If you got GeoRSS working with Virtual Earth, can you please post an example of your code and xml file. I would really appreciate it.

  5. Mikel Says:
    June 9th, 2006 at 7:01 pm

    http://brainoff.com/test/ve.html

  6. Rob Says:
    July 10th, 2007 at 5:39 pm

    You’re probably not on this thread any longer but it came up when I Googled this same GeoRSS problem and your code was a big help . . . thanks.

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