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Travel coordinates: blogging across the map

March 12, 2008 by Neil Maclean 

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“Contextualised blogging interfaces” - it doesn’t exactly trip off the tongue, does it? However there are obvious attractions for a travel company when it comes to blogging from where you are rather than where your computer thinks you are. Combine this with mapping technology and suddenly the world and his mother can follow the progress of your safari, cruise or overland trip.

That’s why I rather like this Yahoo! pipes, Google maps, down and dirty blog editor mash-up created by Tony Hirst whose system:

“effectively allows you to use a Google My Map as a “geographical blogging surface”. Each marker on the map corresponds to a separate post, or feed item. “

And handily:

“The ‘View in Google Earth’ link from the MyMap can be passed to the pipe and a valid geoRSS feed will be produced as a result.”

It’s more than worth a look. Another happy example of blogging breaking free from the blog.


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6 Responses to “Travel coordinates: blogging across the map”

  1. Tony Hirst on March 13th, 2008 4:54 am

    Hi
    I’ve posted a utility that will generate the geoRSS url for a mymaps ‘geoblog’ given the URL of the ‘View in google earth’ kml file URL from a MyMap:

    http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/maps/

  2. Tony Hirst on March 13th, 2008 4:54 am

    Hi
    I’ve posted a utility that will generate the geoRSS url for a mymaps ‘geoblog’ given the URL of the ‘View in google earth’ kml file URL from a MyMap:

    http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/maps/

  3. Neil Maclean on March 13th, 2008 5:04 am

    Outstanding. Thanks Tony.

  4. Neil Maclean on March 13th, 2008 5:04 am

    Outstanding. Thanks Tony.

  5. Tony Hirst on March 14th, 2008 3:18 am

    No probs - if you can think of ways I can make it easier/more useful, please let me know.

    eg I’ll try to add a feature that generates a tinyurl of the rss feed over the weekend…

  6. Tony Hirst on March 14th, 2008 3:18 am

    No probs - if you can think of ways I can make it easier/more useful, please let me know.

    eg I’ll try to add a feature that generates a tinyurl of the rss feed over the weekend…

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