From: Alexandre L. <ale...@ec...> - 2006-08-25 21:24:39
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Hi, >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, clickin= g >a map region) with stories rather than coordinate pairs. You'll be happy Tim, the GeoRSS standard (it's a Open Geospatial=20 Consortium standard, see http://www.opengeospatial.org/) allows not only=20 points, but lines and polygons. So this means, to take your example, you=20 can specify Canada or Middle-East with a polygon. This is -already- in=20 the plugin :-) One of the improvements will be to allow adding and=20 selecting regularly used 'locations' from a list, instead of having to=20 type the whole coordinates in the story edition page. This droplist=20 could be provided to users submitting stories. I wasn't aware there was previous feature request of story=20 'regionalization'. If you ask me, GeoRSS is the way to go, since it is a=20 standard. > So this only applies to RSS, and you won't notice anything when visitin= g > the site otherwise? If the story has location info, I'd want to see it > in the story somewhere. That's where the Google Maps API part comes into play. (have you read=20 the comments in the IssueList link I provided? ;-) Idealy, you will be=20 able to map your GeoRSS directly on a map on your slash site. Right now,=20 it works when using other sites such as Mapufacture.com to automatically=20 map my slash stories, but having this maps directly on the slash site=20 would be nice. This is only the beginning (but since my own developer=20 skills aren't too high and there aren't that many people developing=20 slash, who knows at what pace this plugin will evolve...). As I wrote,=20 you can also add maps for individual stories whenever appropriate. > I think it would be a huge value-add, and very useful, especially were I'm happy to hear this :-) Have a great weekend! Alex --=20 Alexandre Leroux, M.Sc., Ing. Environnement Canada / Environment Canada Centre m=E9t=E9orologique canadien / Canadian Meteorological Centre Division de la r=E9ponse aux urgences environnementales / Environmental Emergency Response Division ale...@ec... |