Rough KML locations for geo URIs

Sean Gillies

2010-06-18 00:00

I've combined my interests in the brand new RFC 5870 and representing rough locations in KML at http://ruffgeo.appspot.com/. Comments are very welcome, except about the name of the app.

Update (2010-06-18): Fixed a content disposition issue with Firefox. Apologies.

Comments

Re: Rough KML locations for geo URIs

Author: Tim Schaub

This could make a nice bookmarklet for browsers that aren't configured to follow geo URI:

<a href="javascript:(function() {var a, aa=document.getElementsByTagName('a'); for (var i=0,ii=aa.length;i<ii;++i) {a=aa[i]; if (a.href && a.href.indexOf('geo:')===0) {a.onclick = function() {window.location = 'http://ruffgeo.appspot.com/kml?q=' + encodeURIComponent(this.href); return false;}}}})();">geo bookmarklet</a>