Today Nearby: local RSS feeds

admin — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 07:49:04 +0000

Platial has a new service called Today Nearby, it is a very (very!) nice mashup of feeds from Reuters, Flickr, YouTube and others. The information from these feeds is put on a map and you can subscribe to this feed with KML and RSS. It’s great to see a local cityname when you arrive on the page! Nice;) Type in any cityname and you should see the latest info about that region… Platial also have their own blog which states:

This is our first stab at a tool that works with the growing wealth of geo-referenced information and provides a real-time close-up of your city. Try it out, give us feedback, get involved and keep an eye out for further developments. Along these lines, Today Nearby is currently a proof of concept, an “alpha” level product. This means that the feed sources may change, the outbound feeds and formats aren’t necessarily reliable (as we change formats around) and there are bound to be huge gaps in data. But, if you are as excited about Places and feeds as we are, this should prove to be a valuable distraction from your other work.

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GeoRSS: Get locations in your RSS

admin — Wed, 10 May 2006 21:34:21 +0000

The Geonames “RSS to GeoRSS Converter” reads the entries of an RSS feed and searches the Geonames Database to find a location for the entry text. If a relevant location is found, its latitude and longitude are added to the RSS feed using the GeoRSS encoding (via rss-specifications.com).

It works pretty good, check out this example of the Reuters newsfeed. The lat and long parameters are added to each item, sweet!

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GeoRSS: Get locations in your RSS

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Today Nearby: local RSS feeds

GeoRSS: Get locations in your RSS