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

[Larson, T. E. <TEL...@we...>]

Alexandre Leroux wrote:
> 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

So I'd just have to define my polygons when creating the site, and add
this list to the story submit page?  Cool.

> -already- in the plugin :-) 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.      =20

This officially takes you to the top of the "my favorite people" list.
:)

> I wasn't aware there was previous feature request of story
> 'regionalization'. If you ask me, GeoRSS is the way to go, since it is
> a standard. =20

Yes, sounds like it!



Tim

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Tim Larson
West Corporation, Interactive TeleServices
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