Comments on: Google Map + geoRSS

By: allovertheplanet

allovertheplanet — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:18:24 +0000

I spend about a day to figure out how I could display my flickr pictures on a saved google map so I could show my GPS track together with the photos – and then I finally found this lovely blog and the above post…..

THANKS SO MUCH – so far it works great for me:
http://www.allovertheplanet.com/blog/2009/01/06/2009-01-02-trip-to-bogota-old-city/trackback/

By: Newsy Man

Newsy Man — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 14:45:27 +0000

Hi, it seems that its good idea to show some information on the map. But geo rss is not so popular now – rss is more popular. Therefore there are several services exists which provides text-parcing and geo-loctation of the text. For example newsymap.com or reuters web site.

By: Auto Inkoop

Auto Inkoop — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:52:09 +0000

This seems easy, I will give a try. geoRSS is a good invention.

By: The Click2Map™ Blog » Blog Archive » The Dilemma of GeoRSS Applied for Business

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:01:05 +0000

[...] is a simple way to include location in RSS feeds. In Dan Catt’s own words, “it’s pretty simple. This is what you get in the rss XLM: 37.79586 [...]

By: Flickr, Geotagging, GPS and the Nokia N95

Flickr, Geotagging, GPS and the Nokia N95 — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 23:00:13 +0000

[...] the ability to embed these maps directly on my blog (I know there’s a mashup solution using Google maps and the Flickr API (details here) but I’d like to extend this using sets and not just a general Flickr feed. Maybe I can integrate Flickr set RSS feeds with Google Maps [...]

By: RGarella

RGarella — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:21:37 +0000

bizarrely, this worked beautifully to map my geotagged photos … in Firefox and Safari. In Explorer the identical string resulted instead in this:
Your search for http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=32654588@N00&format=rss_200&georss=true around this map area did not match any locations.

I’m hard-pressed to imagine how the browser could make a difference!

By: Mr Yap

Mr Yap — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:00:44 +0000

I discovered that the Flickr does not have RSS feed for sets page.

All my geotagged Flickr photos are being collected as Set Page.

After playing around with it, I have came out this. What I did is append &tags=geotagged

See example: http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=36274938@N00&tags=geotagged&format=rss_200&georss=true

Hope this helps

Cheers

By: Jef Poskanzer

Jef Poskanzer — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:19:43 +0000

Not bad, although Google has only implemented one variety of GeoRSS, and didn’t include the Yahoo! extensions for geocoding.

For the flickr feeds, which do use this variety of RSS and do include numeric lat/long. it’s fine. But see my URL for a more complete GeoRSS processor.

By: James

James — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:02:49 +0000

When I read about this on the google blog I had a play around with it. It works brilliantly, all we need now are two extra query parameters for the flickr feeds…

1 – Count = number of photos to include in the feed (Default = 20) (analogous to per_page in flickr.photos.search)
2 – Offset = index of first photo to return in feed (Default = 0/most recent photo) (analogous to page in flickr.photos.search)

In this way you can really easily display photos on the map with a simple feed url. :D