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I'm almost up-to-date in terms of geospatial news after my two months leave. Here's some stories not yet featured on slashgeo that I want to make sure our readers don't miss! :-) Let's start with the GeoRSS Buzz PR. Two Slashdot stories about Social Consequences and Effects of RFID Implants and Real RFID Hacking Scenarios. There was also this incredible community effort to map a city in a week-end, Manchester, over OpenStreetMap. Some reading about how to build your own GPS tracking system. Here's a TidBits review of Garmin's StreetPilot 2720. Finally, some tools related to geocoding. One last thing, some have noticed, there's a new poll waiting for your vote :-)
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It's my pleasure to announce I'm back from 2 months vacations. Give me a few days to get back on my feet and slashgeo shall see a fresh and regular input of news and stories. Thanks to author dct and all readers whom submitted stories during the past few weeks. Keep sending them in! :-) Along with the regular news, we'll of course continue to improve slashgeo to the best of our abilities. Don't hesitate to share your comments: we're doing this for you, the users! As a start, I updated the OSGeo topic logo to reflect their newly choosen logo. Cheers!
Industry: GeoRSS Fun and Not-so-fun 2 comments
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Waves in the geospatial community regarding GeoRSS (previous story with the GeoRSS Buzz PR). Let's start with this nice Directions Mag article named GeoRSS fun, which discuss GeoRSS brilliantly. Then, there's the debate about the OGC wanting to "hijack" GeoRSS. You must read this Hobu blog entry and Allan Doyle comments. From the Hobu blog: "This post is about my concerns that the Open GIS Consortium's (OGC) seems to be attempting to subvert and subsume GeoRSS. [...] First, I don't think that GeoRSS ever asked to be an OGC standard. Second, the OGC white paper completely disregarded the Creative Commons license [...]" Meanwhile, the Geospatial Semantic Web details how to mix RDF/A with GeoRSS. There's also the related GeoLocateFox extension for Firefox (previous story).
GeoRSS: The Simplest Possible "Geo" for the Web 2 comments
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Here's an informative article hosted on GeoPlace written by Raj Singh, director of Interoperability Programs at the Open Geospatial Consortium, named GeoRSS: The Simplest Possible “Geo” for the Web. From the article: "GeoRSS developers are hoping that big players like Yahoo and Microsoft will soon provide GeoRSS support. The Internet and the Web are built on standards, and GeoRSS, particularly the Pro version, offers an elemental standards platform that will enable applications to exploit reliable, publicly available, data rich services and content. These might be proprietary or non-proprietary, but if they support the Pro version of GeoRSS, they will maximize the “network effect” of growing value that comes with large-scale, open systems. The High Earth Orbit blog adds GeoRSS support to Ruby on Rails mapping.
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