Monday, July 17. 2006

MapInfo to Support GeoRSS [Updated]

Back when I interviewed him in May, MapInfo Senior Product Manager Moshe Benyamin would not commit to support, but today at GISCafe, he does.

In the very near future, we are looking to notify our customers about the availability of a new site where we will be posting a GeoRSS reader utility among other utilities for MapInfo Professional v8.5 users. The new connectivity enhancements we made in v8.5 are exciting and the GeoRSS utility highlights just one of the many ways customers can leverage the new interoperability options we now offer.

Udpate 7/18: I contacted Moshe who shared this statement regarding which GeoRSS would be supported.

The utility we are looking to share will support all three standards. [See the three detailed here; none are "official" W3C or OGC standards.] The support however will be limited to point data at this point - this is because we have seen the most number of sites with useful data one can access. With that said, we are looking to also provide the source code of this utility so our users will have the option to extend or customize the utility for their specific use.

Moshe goes on to note that when the extention will be available is not final, but suggests that those who are interested sign up for MapInfo's e-News to learn when the resource page will be available.