From: Eric D. <eri...@ja...> - 2006-08-25 21:10:00
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I still think a great plugin/feature would be to allow approved users to be able to submit files/pictures in replies to articles. Larson, Timothy E. wrote: > Alexandre Leroux wrote: > >> The first feature is adding GeoRSS tags to the RSS feed of the slash >> site. You can learn more about on http://georss.org and >> http://slashgeo.org/search.pl?query=georss. In short, RSS items are >> geolocated, meaning they can be mapped or queried by the user. >> Example: >> show me RSS story items that are within 50 miles of my state. My goal >> was simply to have an automated map my slash stories. It works :-) (I >> can't show you a map of slashgeo.org's mapped georss feed since I >> stopped geocoding stories until feature #2 below stops showing errors >> for geolocated stories :-) >> > [snip] > >> My slash site, slashgeo.org, will definitely use the plugin and >> geolocate every story whenever appropriate. Ultimately, people will be >> able to browse stories by location, say, stories that relates to the >> UK. >> > > Hmmm... > > Slash - Low-Priority Feature Requests, 699051, story regionalization > > I'd've been happy with a even a list of regions/countries to choose from > when submitting stories. How hard is it to reliably map any given > coordinate pair to a city/country/state/area? I can certainly see the > utility in finding local postings (i.e. "within 200 km of <coord>") but > more likely (for my needs) I'd want to focus on "Canada" or "Manhattan" > or "Middle East". It certainly would be easier (for non-geography > buffs) to submit something like this (i.e. picking from a list, clicking > a map region) with stories rather than coordinate pairs. > > So this only applies to RSS, and you won't notice anything when visiting > the site otherwise? If the story has location info, I'd want to see it > in the story somewhere. > > >> What's the overhead? Not much. You simply need to specify a location >> (latitude / longitude coordinates) for your stories. Does it generate >> added-value? Well, to my readers, yes, since we're geospatial >> professionals. To your slashsite? You're the judge! :-) >> > > I think it would be a huge value-add, and very useful, especially were > it given the ability to use "general" location as well as "specific" > location. But like I alluded to, I don't know how difficult it would be > to piggyback the general on top of the specific. > > Tim > |