GeoRSS


GeoRSS is a specification for encoding location as part of a Web feed. The name "GeoRSS" is derived from RSS, the most known Web feed and syndication format.
In GeoRSS, location content consists of geographical points, lines, and polygons of interest and related feature descriptions. GeoRSS feeds are designed to be consumed by geographic software such as map generators. By building these encodings on a common information model, the GeoRSS collaboration is promoting interoperability and "upwards-compatibility" across encodings.
At this point, the GeoRSS collaboration has completed work on two primary encodings that are called GeoRSS Geography Markup Language and GeoRSS Simple. GeoRSS-Simple is a very lightweight format that supports basic geometries and covers the typical use cases when encoding locations. GeoRSS GML is a formal Open Geospatial Consortium GML Application Profile, and supports a greater range of features than GeoRSS Simple, notably coordinate reference systems other than WGS84 latitude/longitude. There is also a W3C GeoRSS serialization, which is older and partly deprecated but still the most widely used.
GeoRSS can be used to extend both RSS 1.0 and 2.0, as well as Atom, the IETF's latest standard for feeds.

Examples

Here's a GeoRSS Simple example using Atom.


xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss">
Earthquakes
International earthquake observation labs

2005-12-13T18:30:02Z

Dr. Thaddeus Remor
tremor@quakelab.edu

urn:uuid:60a76c80-d399-11d9-b93C-0003939e0af6

M 3.2, <a href="/wiki/Mona_Passage">Mona Passage</a>

urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a
2005-08-17T07:02:32Z
We just had a big one.
45.256 -71.92


Here is a schema fragment for a GeoRSS GML encoding for RSS 2.0


xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss"
xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml">

http://maps.google.com
Cambridge Neighborhoods
One guy's view of Cambridge, Massachusetts

00000111c36421c1321d3
Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:16:31 +0000
Central Square
The heart and soul of the "old" Cambridge. Depending on where you
stand, you can feel like you're in the 1970s or 2020.
rajrsingh





-71.106216 42.366661
-71.105576 42.367104
-71.104378 42.367134
-71.103729 42.366249
-71.098793 42.363331
-71.101028 42.362541
-71.106865 42.366123
-71.106216 42.366661









Here is example of W3C geo GeoRSS


media="screen"?>
xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">

USGS M5+ Earthquakes
Real-time, worldwide earthquake list for the past 7 days
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/
U.S. Geological Survey
Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:56:15 PST

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 05:24:17 GMT
M 5.3, northern <a href="/wiki/Sumatra%2C_Indonesia">Sumatra, Indonesia</a>
December 28, 2007 05:24:17 GMT
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2007llai.php
5.5319
95.8972



Examples of GeoRSS Implementations

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