[OSM-talk] Diaries via a GeoRSS Box Filter

[Shaun McDonald]

Seems you want
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-geo/

Shaun

Gregory wrote:
> That's really cool.
>
> I should really sort out georeferencing my blog posts (might need to 
> hack WordPress a bit or find a plugin, and then I want to add an OSM 
> map or link to my template).
> Then you could put the url as http://blogs.openstreetmap.org which is 
> user diaries plus a fairly long list of OSM people who blog on their 
> own website.
>
> -- 
> Gregory
> nomoregrapes at gmail.com <mailto:nomoregrapes at gmail.com>
> http://www.livingwithdragons.com
>
> 2008/8/26 Martin Vidner <martin.osm at vidner.net 
> <mailto:martin.osm at vidner.net>>
>
>     Hi,
>
>     OpenStreetMap has this nice [1]feed of its users' [2]diaries, so
>     that you can get all excited about the progress that fellow mappers
>     have done near you. Now if you actually try to follow that feed, you
>     may notice, as did I, that the problem is in the word _near_, which is
>     the missing piece. It does not help to learn about new developments on
>     [3]another continent.
>
>     Fortunately (and unsurprisingly) the feed is [4]GeoRSS so we can
>     filter its contents based on the coordinates supplied with most diary
>     entries. I did not find such service on the Web so I wrote it
>     myself: a
>     [5]GeoRSS Box Filter. You say
>     geofilter.php?url=...&minlat=...&maxlat=...&minlong=...&maxlong=...
>     and
>     it filters the given feed according to the given bounding box. If you
>     omit the url, it defaults to the above mentioned OSM diary feed, and
>     the bounding box defaults to Czechoslovakia.
>
>     More examples? How about the [6]United Kingdom? or [7]Georgia? (The
>     [8]Export tab is handy to get the numbers, BTW) To watch for uploaded
>     GPS traces, use
>     [9]geofilter.php?url=http://openstreetmap.org/traces/rss. I wonder
>     what other interesting feeds you can find to experiment with (but
>     I did
>     not try anything else than RSS 2.0).
>
>     Oh, and I worked on this all on the [10]company time because it's
>     [11]Hack Week3 now, yay!
>
>     Reposted from:
>      
>     http://mvidner.blogspot.com/2008/08/openstreetmap-diaries-via-georss-box.html
>     Links:
>     1. http://www.openstreetmap.org/diary/rss
>     2. http://www.openstreetmap.org/diary
>     3. http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Tatata/diary/2985
>     4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoRSS
>     5. http://vidner.net/martin/software/geo/geofilter.php
>     6.
>     http://vidner.net/martin/software/geo/geofilter.php?minlat=50&maxlat=60&minlong=-9&maxlong=2
>     <http://vidner.net/martin/software/geo/geofilter.php?minlat=50&maxlat=60&minlong=-9&maxlong=2>
>     7.
>     http://vidner.net/martin/software/geo/geofilter.php?minlat=40.7&maxlat=43.7&minlong=39.7&maxlong=46.7
>     <http://vidner.net/martin/software/geo/geofilter.php?minlat=40.7&maxlat=43.7&minlong=39.7&maxlong=46.7>
>     8. http://www.openstreetmap.org/export/
>     9.
>     http://vidner.net/martin/software/geo/geofilter.php?url=http://openstreetmap.org/traces/rss
>     10. http://www.suse.cz/en/
>     11.
>     http://zonker.opensuse.org/2008/08/25/hack-week-iii-off-and-running/
>
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