[Originally posted at PubForge 2009-06-01]
How to: Get your content on the map via geoRSS
by Dale Hobson
Bill Haenel of Haenel Communications Technologies has added geotagging functions to the main content modules of North Country Public Radio’s custom implementation of his open-source CMS, Public Media Manager. These features operate within both the news module and the events calendar module, adding precise geocoordinates to individual stories and events, derived from text addresses entered by the content creator.
These coordinates are exported from the CMS database into the site RSS feeds in “georss:point” format. By passing the geoRSS feed address as a search query to Google Maps, the feed items can then be rendered on a Google map that will update whenever a new item is added to the feed.