Better Know a GeoCommons Feature – URL Feeds
February 26th, 2010by Bill Greer
About the Author: Bill leads the FortiusOne data analysis team. You can follow him on twitter @billfgreer. Read more from this authorYou my have noticed some changes to the front page of GeoCommons. If you are a regular user, the most obvious change will have been the uploading functionality and workflow which includes the addition of GeoJoin. You can still Geocode your own data by using our open-source geocoder to display your spreadsheet data on a map, but we’ve added even more than that!
One of the most exciting features we have added is the ability to upload URL and data feeds which will allow you to use external data from the web to create dynamic maps that update when the linked data changes.
This video highlights just one example of a growing number of online services making geodata available as a feed:
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March 4th, 2010 at 11:37 pm
It’s really great to see the ability to bring in geoRSS feeds. It does seem like some ability to better control the point popup balloons relative to the the RSS elements (title, description, urls within the popup, etc) would be a nice future item.
Keep up the great progress and thanks.