After discussion in the GeoRSS community, and based on feedback of consistency across pages, we’ve migrated the GeoRSS site to a Drupal-based CMS. Also, if you walk in web-design rings, you may know that May 1st is CSSReboot.

What does this mean to you? First, the pages will be much easier to maintain for accuracy and consistency. It will also allow people to add more examples, link to software, use cases, and clarify any issues.

We’re also encouraging the GeoRSS community to maintain an active commitment in supporting and developing the standard. If you have a request or desire for GeoRSS, create a proposal and elicit feedback. We’ll be putting up votes on proposals as they begin to solidify and find general community consensus.

Why Drupal? For one, it’s easy to setup and maintain. But more importantly, Drupal has gotten excellent geospatial modules, especially GeoRSS support (and KML) both for importing (incoming RSS feed entries can become first-class citizens in your CMS) as well as output (publish GeoRSS from your CMS) through the hard work of Dan Karran. We wanted to support that effort by showcasing it on georss.org.

Please let us know what you think, if you find any orphaned-pages or dead-links, and create an account and join the community.