Adding “Where” to the “What, Who and When”
I’ve added an additional GeoRSS to the Adobe Flex dashboard I’m working on. In addition to the earthquake tracking GeoRSS feed provided in the starter application provided by ESRI, I converted a text only news feed from Reuter’s Top Stories RSS and made it mappable by using the location information in the story, so when you click on the story the map zooms to the part of the world where the news story is coming from. NOTE: when the map zooms and if you see this message “Map data not yet available” you need only to zoom out a little, using the scroll bar on the left margin, and then you will see the map.
Geocoding a news story
GeoRSS is an emerging standard for encoding location as part of an Web feed. (Web feeds are used to describe feeds (”channels”) of content, such as news articles, Audio blogs, video blogs and text blog entries. These web feeds are rendered by programs such as aggregators and web browsers.) The name “GeoRSS” is derivated from RSS, the most known Web feed and syndication format.
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