Spaced Out ::

Ed Parsons gave the heads up on the Google Maps blog news that support has finally been extended to GeoRSS. Bout time too in my books; GeoRSS is rapidly emerging as the de facto choice for lightweight distribution of vector data. And the fact that the OGC have a white paper on the “standard” is good news. Its not as rich as GML (or KML for that matter) but its good at its target market.

At the Journal of Maps we use WorldKit to suck the abstracts for our articles out of a GeoRSS file and display it on the main page. We’ve now add a Google Maps link for those wishing to use it. Having quickly played with it, support is not quite what I like, but its OK. Notice for example the different display of points and polygons; polygons also remain non-clickable whilst points are OK. I’m no expert on the Google Maps API so I’d been interested to see if some of these behaviours can be changed.