YAB » maps http://blog.alexgirard.com Yet Another Blog Sat, 15 Nov 2008 01:14:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 en Mapping 3 days in Berlin http://blog.alexgirard.com/72/ http://blog.alexgirard.com/72/#comments Mon, 14 May 2007 20:05:43 +0000 alx http://blog.alexgirard.com/2007/05/14/72/ Berlin walkingGoogle Maps has made it really easy to draw lines on its interface, that’s good to keep a small walking-log of last few days in Berlin.
The city is gigantic, it’s a tiring experience urban-hiking all day long (make me remember Paris before I got my skating shoes) and I’ll switch to bike in next days (or next summer) to discover the city further.

Mixing Google Maps KML output and Google Earth, you can obtain the superposition showed on the picture. Today, it takes a bit of time to point all the way on the map, it sure could be helped by some GPS tech, and some GeoRSS from Flickr, or PicasaWeb, would help a lot to show the photos taken during the trip.
GPS + Camera hacks already exists today, and I hope it would become mainstream in near future (less than 2 years).

Some links:

]]> http://blog.alexgirard.com/72/feed/ RSS extension: GeoRSS http://blog.alexgirard.com/rss-extension-georss/ http://blog.alexgirard.com/rss-extension-georss/#comments Thu, 05 Apr 2007 23:58:53 +0000 alx http://blog.alexgirard.com/2007/04/05/rss-extension-georss/ Reading about Google Maps API today, I discovered GeoRSS features:

Some simple xml elements to add in item elements:

<georss:point>43.127697 -77.573776</georss:point>
<geo:Point>
<geo:lat>43.127697</geo:lat>
<geo:long>-77.573776</geo:long>
</geo:Point>

Add it to Flickr feeds with a simple attribute (georss=1): http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/[...]&format=rss_200&georss=1

Wordpress extented by GeoRSS plugin can be ready in 5 minutes and do miracles.

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