GeoRSS and Antiquities
GeoRSS evangelism is part of what I do for Pleiades. The new support for GeoRSS in Google Maps is the spark that will set it off in the digital humanities. For example, check out this feed of Celtic coin finds from the British Museum's Celtic Coin Index:
http://www.finds.org.uk/CCI/functions/atom-export-all.php?denomination=Stater
Feed on the map
Comments
Re: GeoRSS and Antiquities
Author: Allan
Google Maps says: "Parts of http://www.finds.org.uk/CCI... could not be displayed because it is too large." There are 1309 items in the feed. I think this illustrates the difference between what's essentially a database expressed in GeoRSS and a "live" feed. A live feed might only have the 10 or so latest entries. That's not a problem for GeoRSS, but rather something to think about when designing feeds. As people start learning about GeoRSS, a set of conventions could arise to deal with this. Nevertheless, this is a great example and does indeed show off the power of the whole idea.Re: GeoRSS and Antiquities
Author: Sean
I'm hoping that Google buys into the Atom Publishing Protocol and its specification for paging through large collections.Re: GeoRSS and Antiquities
Author: Gregor J. Rothfuss
nice :) although as a non-expert, i would love to see pictures of the actual coins in the info window. sort of a treasure map.Re: GeoRSS and Antiquities
Author: Dan
Hey chaps I see you've commented on my dev feeds. I'm refining the work daily, the site isn't really live yet. Give it a month and it will be much more useful..... Coins do appear as pictures on the overlays I'm building (37k so far, another 20k images to add.) I'm doing it by myself, so it is a bit of a drag.... The locations are also obfuscated slightly as well! DanRe: GeoRSS and Antiquities
Author: Sean
I apologize if the attention was unwanted, Dan. I just found it irresistibly cool.Re: GeoRSS and Antiquities
Author: Dan
Sean Attention is great! The database is starting to take shape. I've now done some more coding and custom feeds can be produced in various formats. Try this one out: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=http://www.finds.org.uk/CCI/functions/georss.php?geography1=BLA I've added image thumbnails in to the point data as suggested by Gregor. Dan PS Keep up the good work at Pleiades....Yahoo and GeoRSS
Author: Mark Fredrickson
Looks like Yahoo is on the GeoRSS band wagon too with their TagMaps API While they don't quite follow the WFS BBOX style of bounding boxes, it's still looks promising.