[Geowanking] TypePad with location?

[Sonny Parafina]

Raj,

Where's the georss content?  We wrote up a widget for georss and we'll 
be using it with a compusult rss feed for the GEOINT conference, but I 
had to send Barry a georss snippet  from a google cache as an example.

Anyway, we completed a catalog harvester for KML (you can now search for 
KML files)and  cataloging georss is next on the list.

sonny

Raj Singh wrote:

> Great topic Anselm. I've been thinking along the same lines, with the  
> idea of having software that implements what we eventually (any day  
> now) come up with at georss.org. I just don't have the time/skills to  
> quickly build a plug-in, but would love to see livejournal, wordpad,  
> movable type, etc. supporting location.
>
> Also another side of this discussion is the audience that thinks geo  
> first, and blogging second. In this scenario, one might write  
> geographic data directly into a blog database's tables, bypassing the  
> blog software's UI for entry creation. Then the blogging software  
> would mainly be used for display and commenting. I've developed a  
> prototype based on Movable Type here:
> the weblog: http://georss.mit.edu/mabikeblog/
> the feed: http://georss.mit.edu/mabike.php (uses custom code, not MT)
>
> note: the data wasn't very conducive to the weblogging data schema,  
> so the post content isn't very interesting in this case.
>
> --Raj
>
> On Oct 27, 2005, at 4:32 PM, B.K. DeLong wrote:
>
>> At 04:09 PM 10/27/2005, Gregor J. Rothfuss wrote:
>>
>>> i'm thinking livejournal would be more interesting at this time.  
>>> it's user base seems more inclined to (over)share such  information, 
>>> and then there is their relatively rich foaf data:
>>>
>>> http://www.livejournal.com/users/lydian/data/foaf
>>>
>>
>> True - but the best way to get this functionality added is to first  
>> program it yourself with LJ's nice, open API and then talk to Brad  
>> Fitz about getting it pushed through ASAP.
>>
>> It would be great to get a Geoloc field in both the user profile  and 
>> in the fields for each LJ post. And for gosh sakes - include  
>> Altitude ;)
>>
>> The User Profile feature would be the standard "Blog location" the  
>> user wants. I think it would be great to have a means of  identifying 
>> the location as fictional or false just so people don't  assume 
>> that's where people really are if they arent.
>>
>> The LJ Post fields would allow for a Long/Lat/Alt for each post and  
>> offer to save a loc as a "common posting location" and have a  
>> pulldown to show all these common locations.  I'd love to be as  
>> "fine" tuned as to which floor someone is posting from via alt. Why  
>> not? ;)
>>
>> Better yet, why not have LJ auto-generate a KMZ file containing all  
>> the locations of all the geocoded LJ posts, and allowig people to  do 
>> a "fly-to" tour of them? Insert the geocoded info into the RSS  and 
>> Atom feeds etc.
>>
>> Has TypePad added a service to "crossport" to an LJ account yet?
>
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