The Guardian Uses GeoRSS
Many pages have maps of reporter locations and
You can also see all the posts aggregated together on a larger map. Our intrepid reporters simply add latitude and logitude data when they file the story and we do the rest.
Here’s the technical details. We are using the GeoRSS Simple location encoding standard. This means that within our RSS feed for an item with geolocation data you will find an element like this:
51.5225 -0.1085
which contains latitude and longitude data, separated by a space, to describe a single point on Earth.
by Adena Schutzberg on 10/10 at 06:00 AM |
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