GeoRSS at the Summer of Code

April 12th, 2007

Since Google’s and Microsoft’s GeoRSS announcements last month, there’s been a big jump in interest. Just look at the GeoRSS hits graph from Technorati.

Well more than anyone here can keep up with. One thing that’s jumped out at me is that among the recent batch of Google Summer of Code 2007 project approvals, there’s three projects focused on GeoRSS!

Geo-component for Joomla! Mickael Maison will add GeoRSS and KML support to the Joomla! CMS.

Sahana GIS Catalogue Administration Module Mifan Careem will build out GeoRSS and WMS services for Sahana, the inspiring open source disaster management system.

Implementation of An Interactive GeoRSS tool in uDig Rui Li will be adding GeoRSS authoring to uDig, an OSGeo project.

Congrats to the students .. have an awesome summer!

Posted by mikel Filed in General

4 Responses to “GeoRSS at the Summer of Code”

  1. Mickael MAISON Says:
    April 15th, 2007 at 7:46 am

    It just seems that the GeoRSS is getting adopted by everybody now.

    Well done Mikel !

  2. Crotius Says:
    May 14th, 2007 at 2:51 pm

    Does anyone have a KML to GeoRSS converter? It would be nice to get rid of proprietary format to more of a standard format.

    Thanks.

  3. Jim Landwehr Says:
    June 8th, 2007 at 11:27 am

    Does anyone know of a compiled list of GeoRSS feeds for the US? It would be nice to know what’s available for tapping into.

  4. ajturner Says:
    July 2nd, 2007 at 12:47 pm

    @Crotius - SAFE FME has software to do this, and there are some XSLT files around that do the conversion.

    You can also use Mapufacture which will convert from KML, GeoRSS, MachineTags, Microformats to KML or GeoRSS.

    @Jim Landwehr - there is a growing list on del.icio.us tagged ‘georss’, and you can also see the feeds - and sort by bbox - on Mapufacture.

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