1. GeoRSS the benefit of agreeing on simple things Mikel Maron mikel_maron@yahoo.com Xtech 2006

2. GeoRSS? we want to share place

3. The Definitive History ● Syndicus Geographum ● blogmapper / rdfmapper ● w3c rdfig geo vocabulary ● Geowanking 2003 ● World as a Blog / worldKit

6. More Greatest Hits ● USGS Earthquake Alerts Feed ● Yahoo! Maps API

7. The Landscape Moved ● mashups ● the big G ● OSGeo Foundation ● Where 2.0 ● OpenStreetMap

8. georss.org

9. Alternatives ● KML ● GPX ● GML

11. Flavors ● Simple and GML ● RSS 1.0/RDF, RSS 2.0, Atom ● microformat?

12. M 3.2, Mona Passage urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a 2005-08-17T07:02:32Z We just had a big one. 45.256 -71.92 GeoRSS GML Point

13. GeoRSS GML Line... 45.256 -110.45 46.46 -109.48 43.84 -109.86

14. GeoRSS Simple Point M 3.2, Mona Passage urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a 2005-08-17T07:02:32Z We just had a big one. 45.256 -71.92

15. Simple Line, Polygon, Box 45.256 -110.45 46.46 -109.48 43.84 -109.86 45.256 -110.45 46.46 -109.48 43.84 -109.86 45.256 -110.45 42.943 -71.032 43.039 -69.856

16. Attributes ● featuretypetag ● relationshiptag ● elev ● floor ● radius

17. Legacy and Confusion ● W3C Geo ● W3C Incubator Activity

18. EC JRC Tsunami Simulator

20. recent edits on GeoNames

21. Social Place Apps ● Platial ● Tagzania ● Ning ● Wayfaring, Plazes

22. Open Source Support ● web clients: MapBuilder, OpenLayers, worldKit ● libraries/code: mapstraction, SPARQL geo extensions, Java Rome ● WorldWind ● GeoServer ● FoFRedux

23. Commercial Support ● MSFT announced intention ● Yahoo! continues to support by publishing (Upcoming, Weather, Traffic, flickr(?)) and Maps API ● Ning ● CadCorp

24. Google ● OGC Member ● MGeoRSS ● Acme GeoRSS ● GeoRSS2KML

25. Accouterments ● Feed Validator ● WordPress Plugin ● Weblog ● Press Release

26. http://placedb.org/ http://www.jeffpalm.com/geo/ http://fofredux.sourceforge.net/ http://mapufacture.com/georss/ Aggregation

33. Odds and Ends ● Mobile ● Sensors ● GIS Time Navigation ● RSS to GeoRSS converter

34. Thanks! http://brainoff.com/media/xtech.ppt