[OSM-dev] Planet aggregator (was Re: user diaries enhancement request)

Shaun McDonald shaunmcdonald131 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 21 20:37:57 BST 2007


On 21 Jun 2007, at 19:09, Dan Karran wrote:

> A planet OpenStreetMap aggregator could be a good idea, but I
> personally don't think it should be a part of the diary system. I
> think it should be something separate (using Venus, for example) that
> pulls in the diary entries as well as blog posts from the cloud.

My blog is currently being aggregated on the OpenOffice.org planet at  
http://planet.go-oo.org/ and would be happy to write more mapping  
post if it is integrated into an osm planet.

+1 for having the diary posts integrated into any planet feed.

>
> Shame planet.openstreetmap.org is already in use  ;)
>

There is nothing to say that we cannot move what is currently at  
planet.openstreetmap.org to some other domain name.
How about earth.openstreetmap.org?
Maybe we could have play.openstreetmap.org, which would be a separate  
system for people to make up their own country, maybe even in a  
similar method to second life. Um, maybe we would need to have some  
for of animation of people/trains/cars/bikes on the map first, before  
we could commercialise that.

>
> Dan
>
> On 6/21/07, Kerry Burke <kerry at kurverit.com> wrote:
>> Using a planet aggregator is a good way to aggregate feeds.
>>
>> Venus could be the way to go:
>> http://intertwingly.net/code/venus/docs/index.html
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Kerry.
>>
>> Stefan Baebler wrote:
>>> Guys, please don't get carried away into writing another blogging
>>> software (preview, bbcode, detecting links in text, permalinks,
>>> spamfight, comments....), just to add location information to posts
>>> (somehow i assumed that was the reason for even starting diaries).
>>> Anyhow, there are plugins for most popular opensource blogging
>>> software doing just that.
>>>
>>> Yes, do provide some basic functionality for people without  
>>> blogs, but
>>> aggregating registered user's rss feeds on the osm topic might be  
>>> far
>>> better / more useful idea.
>>>
>>> Eg: http://www.openstreetmap.org/diary should also include blog  
>>> posts,
>>> such as
>>> http://damumbl.byteholder.de/blog/?cat=11&feed=rss2, nicely merged
>>> with other posts (other rss feeds and osm diaries) ordered by date.
>>> Also served as RSS. Users would enter their blog's feed URL in their
>>> preferences.
>>>
>>> greets,
>>>      Stefan
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6/21/07, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
>>>> Dan Karran wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Yep, sounds like a sensible feature. Also permalinks that actually
>>>>> point to the right diary entry, and working out what to do with  
>>>>> HTML
>>>>> in posts... SteveC had asked me to strip it out to prevent  
>>>>> spam, but
>>>>> perhaps just adding a rel="nofollow" to links would suffice?
>>>>
>>>> It would certainly be good to allow links to anything on
>>>> *.openstreetmap.org (and opengeodata, and perhaps the domain in the
>>>> user's registered mail address?).
>>>>
>>>> I'm never sure whether nofollow actually stops spammers, though -
>>>> spammy links are still annoying even if they're not doing  
>>>> anything for
>>>> their Google rank.
>>>>
>>>> cheers
>>>> Richard
>>>>
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