GeoRSS
A while ago, I blogged about how easy it would be to put location data (and essential time data) inside an RSS file, and I was pointed towards sites that let you "add events"... not what I had in mind at all. But I just stumbled over GeoRSS... which seems straight forward enough.
I see that a Guardian reporter has raised the issue of how we (in the UK) pay for a shed load of data to be collected, then pay again as our councils licences that data back from Ordance Survey. Ed Parsons refutes this, but then, regardless of the facts, he would wouldn't he (working for OS). Not knowing enough about the politics of GIS data one thing is very, very clear... that for some reason there are lots of free maps available to people in the US and none for the UK. Not even an average street map, which I find "wrong" somehow.
I see that a Guardian reporter has raised the issue of how we (in the UK) pay for a shed load of data to be collected, then pay again as our councils licences that data back from Ordance Survey. Ed Parsons refutes this, but then, regardless of the facts, he would wouldn't he (working for OS). Not knowing enough about the politics of GIS data one thing is very, very clear... that for some reason there are lots of free maps available to people in the US and none for the UK. Not even an average street map, which I find "wrong" somehow.
posted by More Juice at 8:41 AM
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