As the GeoRSS blog pointed out, ESRI is now supporting GeoRSS with the Javascript API. Andrea Rosso let me know that you don’t even need to go to that extent to load GeoRSS into ArcWeb Explorer. Just use the find widget and paste the GeoRSS url right into the search box.
ESRI is only supporting points right now and some GeoRSS feeds don’t work exactly right, but at least it is a start. If you want to use the Javascript API on your own use the location property of the AWLocation object that is passed to findLocation. I’ll post some code maybe later if I get a chance.
3 responses so far ↓
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Jeremy
// Aug 4, 2006 at 2:13 pm
Which GeoRSS standard? At the Where 2.0 conference they talked about there being three slightly different, competing versions.
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James Fee
// Aug 4, 2006 at 2:17 pm
Andrea can probably better answer that question. I’ll be completely honest, I’m a GeoRSS newbie but this is what Andrea said to me in an email.
“We’re look for a geo:lat and geo:long tag in the RSS item tag. My understanding is that there are other ways to encode this but we don’t support these at this point.”
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Allan Doyle
// Aug 5, 2006 at 6:42 am
They are not eactly competing versions. GeoRSS Simple is meant to be parseable by anything that can parse GeoRSS GML. The Geo: version has been out there longer than GeoRSS Simple or GML so “competing” might be accurate but that’s not the intent. If they are supporting Geo: then the documentation is here - http://georss.org/w3c.html and here http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/
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