Thursday, February 8. 2007

Safe to Support GeoRSS

The folks at Safe have added GeoRSS support it FME 2007, currently in beta. Says the press release:

FME's GeoRSS reader and writer support both RSS and Atom feeds, and all of the three current GeoRSS standards for encoding geographical data in a feed: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Geo, GeoRSS Simple and GeoRSS GML Profile.

Do be careful, because while these are "standards" they've not been approved by anyone, just put out there by their creators. OGC has released GeoRSS from GeoRSS.org as a White Paper.

The folks at Safe eat their own dogfood by offering this sample map of the locations of their training courses powered by GeoRSS published on mapufacture (Mikel Maron's app) and the same on my local guru (from m-spatial, that's Adrian Cuthbert's company). That right there is one of the great things about GeoRSS; you can "plop" your data down on any app that supports it.

Word on the street is we are going to have a bunch of the GeoRSS players, including Safe folks, at our Location Intelligence Conference.