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... Microsoft, Google and Yahoo support GeoRSS
This week, Microsoft announced their new Live Maps, in addition to supporting Firefox on Windows for 3D, now supports the GeoRSS standard...
... They join Google which recently announced the support of GeoRSS and KML mapping in their Google Maps API...
... In short, GeoRSS is a standard supported by the Open Geospatial Consortium that incorporates geolocation in an interoperable manner to RSS feeds...
... 's support of GeoRSS, all the major players are in and the future looks bright for this emerging standard...
... From the GeoRSS website: 'As RSS becomes more and more prevalent as a way to publish and share information, it becomes increasingly important that location is described in an interoperable manner so that applications can request, aggregate, share and map geographically tagged feeds...
... KML and GeoRSS Support Added to the Google Maps API One of the things I love most about Google Maps and Google Earth is that it's easy for anyone to create and display new geographically referenced content...
... To start we now support GeoRSS as a data format for geographic content in Google Maps...
... We want to enable users to create data in whatever format is most convenient for them, and feel that by supporting both KML and GeoRSS we can enable a wider variety of people and applications to contribute content to Google Maps...
... We've built support for the Simple, GML, and W3C Geo encodings of GeoRSS -- all you have to do is enter the full URL of a GeoRSS file into the Maps query box to load the file...
... For example, take a look at SlashGeo's GeoRSS on Google Maps...
... Most importantly, we've extended support for displaying geographic data -- both KML and GeoRSS -- into the Google Maps API...
... Now in addition to programatically adding content to a Maps API site, you can create your content as KML or GeoRSS and load it into the Map with a simple function call...
... Below is an example that shows KML and GeoRSS layers rendered on a Google Maps API powered map...
... You can toggle on and off the sample layers, or feel free to enter a URL to your favorite KML or GeoRSS content and hit the 'Add' button to see it on the map...
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