tommy's scratchpad

It’s exciting to see GeoRSS published as an official 1.0 specification — congratulations to the GeoRSS team in putting out this useful RSS add-on spec.

So I’ve put together a hack of allowing for WordPress users to geocode their posts, as well as publish them as GeoRSS. This work is based on the original GeoPress work. The plugin also allows for setting what encoding of GeoRSS you want to publish (simple, gml, or w3cgeo). It’s very simple (uses existing custom fields to define x/y tags, and existing WordPress hooks to extend to GeoRSS). The main blog post page also now adds a neat little WMS-based map.

Other work: Ed Parsons also developed his own plugin. The GeoRSS folks also have an implementation. You can download my GeoRSS WordPress plugin hack and give it a go if you wish, however I’d suggest going with GeoPress, which is what I’ll be moving towards (as soon as I get whip up a script to port my coordinates into GeoPress).