I get asked about this a couple of times a day, "where are the RSS feeds?!"
I wanted to add some sorting options, an Atom feed and have it available in a sidebar (see the previous entry) before announcing it, so take this as an early preview announcement you get because everyone is asking. :-)
You can add ";format=rss10" to get the /near result in RSS 1.0 format or ";format=rss092" to get it in RSS 0.92 format. For example to get a feed of things near Jim use this URL: http://geourl.org/near/?p=http://trainedmonkey.com/;format=rss10
The old /rss10/ URLs from v1.0 are also working (they redirect to the new).
As mentioned I'm going to add an Atom feed and also make the old XML feed work again (with more data than the RSS feed).
how about adding lat/long to the feeds too?
Hi Michael,
Yeah, at least for the RSS 1.0 feed (and the coming XML output obviously) I can do that. Not sure if it's possible to put it into the RSS 0.92 feed in an appropriate way.
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I heartily second the call for lat/lon in RSS feeds.
Yes, RSS 0.92 is not extensible, but RSS 2.0 is. At the basics, it's nearly the same, except that 2.0 allows namespaces.
Also encourage the use of the geo namespace to add lat/lon to an RSS item. Besides being compatible with worldKit mapping, it's in use at the USGS and European Commission.
http://brainoff.com/worldkit/doc/rss.php
-Mikel
I suspect there's a 0.92 method but I haven't looked into it yet.
I believe that if the data is in the feed someone who knows XSLT (not me) could get it into the XML format Google Maps uses, to display it on there.
Michael,
Do you have more information on using Google Maps like that? I couldn't find anything on their site ...
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Ah, I take back the 0.92 comment, Mikel knows what he's talking about.
Integration into Google Maps is hackery (Google hasn't said a word about it yet). See http://mygmaps.com/mygmaps.cgi .
Just wanted to say how much I love this site. (you should have a paypal donate button!)
Oh, too bad the Pingback service is full of spam. You might want to use a WP extension to block certain hosts or content.
I agree with Mikel, please use the a standard for the geo namespace, either icbm or the geo:Point.
I have added functionality to FeedonFeeds (http://feedonfeeds.com/) to display the latitude and longitude of any feed items or feed providers. I added the <geourl: namespace, but it would be better idea to support a standard.
However, it *is* nice to be able to view sites that are added near me and their relative distances, all in my aggregator. :)
I agree with Mikel, please use the a standard for the geo namespace, either icbm or the geo:Point.
Also, if you could add the "near" geographic location in the feed origination location, that would be great (currently 0x0).
I have added functionality to FeedonFeeds (http://feedonfeeds.com/) to display the latitude and longitude of any feed items or feed providers. I added the <geourl: namespace, but it would be better idea to support a standard.
However, it *is* nice to be able to view sites that are added near me and their relative distances, all in my aggregator. :)
I add my vote for "please use geo:lat and geo:long". There's no sense using yet-another-custom-property when perfectly good ones already exist and are in wide use.
Any chance of seeing RSS 2.0 added? It would make it simple to feed the URL of a feed into Yahoo's Map Service and get a custom map created...
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RECON
Any RSS2 feeds available? If so, try out my rss2kml script and fly from location to location in Google Earth :)
http://www.kovacevic.nl/blog/archives/174-Fly-to-RSS-locations-using-Google-Earth!.html
I was not able to get the RSS following the instructions given. I have a c# program that accesses a RSS url and downloads the RSS. Any suggestions? I used the following url to get all the urls near the following url
http://geourl.org/near/?p=http://trainedmonkey.com/;format=rss10
Hello guys, what about ATOM?