From: Alexandre L. <ale...@ec...> - 2007-03-23 18:03:20
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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 ale...@ec... |
From: Larson, T. E. <TEL...@we...> - 2007-03-23 18:17:06
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I have a hard time imagining what this would actually look like in use, but I am excited about the possibilities, as I mentioned the last time you posted about this. Nice to know you are still making progress. The lack of something like this in Slash is the main reason I haven't gotten off my lazy butt to set up my Slash site yet. Without the ability to pin the story to a location, I think my site concept would be difficult to realize. Tim --=20 Tim Larson West Corporation, Interactive TeleServices Eschew obfuscation! |
From: Jamie M. <ja...@mc...> - 2007-03-23 18:21:12
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Sweet! That's great work, glad to see it get the recognition and the blurb from Google. --=20 Jamie McCarthy http://mccarthy.vg/ ja...@mc... |
From: Alexandre L. <ale...@ec...> - 2007-03-23 19:26:43
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Hi again, Thanks for the encouragement. I forgot one not-so minor point: the SlashMaps plugin uses the Google Maps API at the moment. But do not fear, this will change :-) The code will soon be using OpenLayers.org (an opensource API supported by the open geospatial foundation (osgeo.org)) instead of the Google Maps API. With OpenLayers.org, anyone can still load (legally, of course) the great Google Maps tiles. One can even switch to other popular tile sources with changing only one variable. I believe this is important since no one wants to be locked-in by any proprietary code. Have a nice weekend :-) Alex Alexandre Leroux wrote: > 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 ale...@ec... |