Re: [Slashcode-development] [Slashcode-general] GeoRSS and Google Maps API Plugins for Slash

[shane <sh...@lo...>]

On Aug 25, 2006, at 5:24 PM, Alexandre Leroux wrote:

>
> 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,  
>> clicking
>> a map region) with stories rather than coordinate pairs.
>
> You'll be happy Tim, the GeoRSS standard (it's a Open Geospatial
> Consortium standard, see http://www.opengeospatial.org/) allows not  
> only
> points, but lines and polygons. So this means, to take your  
> example, you
> can specify Canada or Middle-East with a polygon. This is -already- in
> the plugin :-)

Well, the container to hold that data w/ the story (or submission) is  
there. The code to render that polygon/lines within the google map  
isn't there. It'll come with finding freetime :)

> One of the improvements will be to allow adding and
> selecting regularly used 'locations' from a list, instead of having to
> type the whole coordinates in the story edition page. This droplist
> could be provided to users submitting stories.

I'd been thinking on this one quite a bit. I envisioned a drop down  
that onchange would fill in the geopoints data from whatever was  
selected on the dropdown.

>
> I wasn't aware there was previous feature request of story
> 'regionalization'.

Me neither.

  Shane