[Slashcode-general] SlashMaps slashcode plugin features on official Google Maps blog

[Alexandre L. <ale...@ec...>]

Hi list,

Here's an update to the what's going on with the SlashMaps plugins we 
introduced to the list a few months ago. The trigger of this email is 
Google's announcement of GeoRSS support for Google Maps and their using 
of slashcode's SlashMaps plugin to demonstrate their new features (1).

What does the plugin mainly do (at this moment):
- Allows transforming slash's RSS feed into GeoRSS (2)
- Allows showing maps for individual stories (3)

The plugin's development page can be found here (4). It's still in 
active development. Shane deserves all the credit for the coding.

Does this plugin matter? GeoRSS, the future of RSS from my point of 
view, is officially supported by Google and Yahoo! (I think MS also do, 
I just haven't tried to find the information ;-) (too bad Slashdot never 
had a story about GeoRSS (5)) If you want a basic informational story, I 
wrote one in my /.'s journal (6).

The references are:
(1) 
http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2007/03/kml-and-georss-support-added-to-google.html
(2) http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://slashgeo.org/index.rss
(3) http://appdomains.slashgeo.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/22/149239
(4) http://www.lottadot.com/projman.pl?op=view&id=18
(5) http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=georss
(6) http://slashdot.org/~Lord+Satri/journal/167293


Have fun,

Alex :-)
-- 
Alexandre Leroux, M.Sc., Ing.
Environnement Canada / Environment Canada
Centre météorologique canadien / Canadian Meteorological Centre
Division de la réponse aux urgences environnementales /
Environmental Emergency Response Division
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