GeoRSS Viewer/Reader in AIR

12 December 2008 | AIR / Apollo, flex, general, maptech, php, rss, tech, zoomify | Tags: , , , , , , ,

Just did a quick wrapper around the GeoRSS reader classes, got GeoFeeder; then simply couldn’t stop to improve it.

Try any GeoRSS feed you know of, but be aware: every feed sucessfully parsed will be “recorded” for all other users to see.

See the GeoFeeder page for details.

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Thinks i like most (in the shared feed-repository):

  • Nature/Weather : USGS Earthquake data
  • Earthpublisher.com -  Effective …
  • The faulkner_usa Pool …
  • Water Right Documents
  • Traffic: ÖAMTC-Spritfeeds …

7 Responses to “GeoRSS Viewer/Reader in AIR”

  • 1 GeoRSS Weblog » Blog Archive » GeoRSS Viewer/Reader in AIR Says:
    February 23rd, 2009 saat: 21:43

    [...] is an Adobe AIR-based GeoRSS viewer, which is discussed here. Posted by raj Filed in [...]

  • 2 Jim Says:
    March 13th, 2009 saat: 14:19

    Hi,

    This looks like a great tool. How do you add geo rss tags to a web site so that it will appear in your tool>

  • 3 Jim Says:
    March 13th, 2009 saat: 15:03

    I figured it out by using http://www.geonames.org/rss-to-georss-converter.html. I used their webservice to convert the rss to georss feed but needed to add “type=atom_1.0″.

    How do you get rid of items in the database that don’t work?

  • 4 Jim Says:
    March 13th, 2009 saat: 15:48

    Now that I’ve added 2 web sites using the rss-to-georss converter, I’m curious why only certain items (in this case Wordpress posts) appear on the map. Can you explain? None of the posts have any geo tagging information at all.

  • 5 ms Says:
    March 14th, 2009 saat: 11:05

    the geonames service tries to add geographic information based upon country/city/street info found in the original feed. sometimes it works, sometimes not, sometimes takes very long to process.
    the amount of information depends on the tools used. feeds support (more or less) only a headline and a descriptive text. generic tools only use title/description, custom tools pack complete webpages (including images) into the description (it can hold HTML!!). see the Earthquake/USGS… feeds.
    i do the feed administration by hand …

  • 6 Jim Says:
    March 15th, 2009 saat: 14:03

    Okay, I understand. However, I used that tool on sustainabledelco.org/feed/ because I got an error using your tool that said “Feed error: could not fine geographic information”. So, now my question is what do I need to add to that blog to allow your tool to recognize it? A wordpress plugin like geo-mashup?

    Thank you, jim

  • 7 ms Says:
    March 15th, 2009 saat: 14:57

    Geo-mashup seems to do much more: it allows you to include maps in your blog. But the important feature is: “GeoRSS automatically added to feeds”
    I’m using the “GeoPress”-plugin.

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