Tag Archives: georss

Place Names / POI Interest Group Launches

Posted on April 30, 2012 by rajsingh

Over the past few years, a strong community of interest has evolved around information technologies for developing databases of place names and points of interest, and also the search interfaces and gazetteers that provide the query tools for these databases. … Continue reading →

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The “Internet of Places”

Posted on July 25, 2011 by rajsingh

The “Internet of Places” is a nice article putting forth an ecosystem of information and services to bring the geospatial world better in line with the Web. Or one could even say it suggests an information ecosystem where geospatial data … Continue reading →

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Picasa Web Albums uses GeoRSS GML

Posted on January 27, 2010 by rajsingh

Who says Google doesn’t care about standards? When playing around with the RSS feed from Picasa Web Albums, I was pleasantly surprised to see full-blown GeoRSS GML for the geo-located items. In fact, they are recording both an Envelope and … Continue reading →

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GeoRSS updates in 2009

Posted on November 30, 2009 by rajsingh

I’ve posted some updates on GeoRSS use by twitter, weogeo, Geospatial One-Stop, and Adobe Air this year on the GeoRSS Weblog.

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2 test GeoRSS services, cities data and coordinate projection

Posted on March 3, 2009 by rajsingh

After the untimely demise last year of my sandbox server at MIT, I haven’t been good at advertising (or even doing) technology experiments. I’m finally getting my act together now, and have a few interesting things out on the Interwebs: … Continue reading →

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