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19 Jun 2006

Metacarta Parsing FoFRedux

Published in FoFRedux, Geolocation, Mashup, Metacarta, Programming, Technology, Web  |  2 Comments

I mentioned Metacarta last week after I saw their presentation at Where2.0.

They mentioned having a public GeoParser API available for developers to play around with. So I passed in one of the output feeds from FoFRedux (a feed aggregator that supports GeoRSS) through the Metacarta GeoParser to produce a map of locations that show up in my feeds.

FoFRedux -> Metacarta Example: SlashDot article locations

So now you can use a feed aggregator to display, say locations of articles and posts for your friends feeds. Or locations of Flickr photos, or even UPS/Fedex package tracking. The example just shows the image output, but the GeoParser can output GML or GeoMarkup XML, and JSON for better intergration into other applications.

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  1. katie says:

    June 23rd, 2006 at 1:15 pm (#)

    When I try to see that example, I get an “ERROR
    Could not fetch that URL” page.

  2. Andrew says:

    June 27th, 2006 at 7:49 am (#)

    Hrm, for some reason Metacarta can’t find the code.highearthorbit.com url when it includes the additional ? character (it did when I wrote the post, they must have changed their URI parsing scheme).

    This link now works.

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