geo rss

[paola....@gmail.com]

Mikel
thanks a lot for the super interesting work
Let's cc both our shelterfinder and wwh groups too, so that everyone else on our teams
can try to follow and learn from what you are doing

cheers
p

On 6/1/06, Mikel Maron <mikel...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi

> Thats map is very interesting Martin - I've never seen geo-rss in
> action before.  We'll definately need to set up a feed.  Wendy,
> you're right about keyholing, and we need to set up a feed that takes
> the window boundaries and selects relevant points only, and also
> strips that down to key ones geographically spread out when there are
> too many in a view.

Thanks, this is the cool thing about GeoRSS -- easily distributed, visualized and layered.
I'm experimenting a bit more. The following layers that GeoRSS feed I manually assembled from the wiki,
a Weather feed from Yahoo, and a feed from GDACS.org (Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System).
(This is over Google, easily could be put over Yahoo Maps)

http://mapufacture.com/georss/map/show/52

One way to approach the high volume of data is to assign each item a relevance score in the db. Can then produce
multiple GeoRSS feeds, one for each relevance level, and toggle visibility as needed. There are also ways to cluster
points, so that an area with a large number of markers gets a single marker, that can be "expanded".

> Ka-Ping Yee set up the Wiki for us late last year, and should be able
> to sort out uploads for you - I'm not very knowledgeable about the
> server.  (pi...@zesty.ca)

I'm also pretty familiar with MediaWiki, can help there if needed.

> I kicked off a Google Earth thread a few days ago, and Silvi has just
> added some handy links to it to a site collecting sat maps and other
> data about shelter locations.
>
>    http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/429505/an
> /0/page/0/gonew/1#UNREAD
>
>    http://www.zki.caf.dlr.de/applications/2006/indonesia/indonesia_20
> 06_en.html
>    (DLR-ZKI is the Center for Crisis Based Satellite Information)

I've put together a KMZ file for the DLR-ZKI maps. Had to do some projections on these images so they could be used in Google Earth.
The download is 15 MB. Will also post to the keyhole bbs

http://brainoff.com/disaster/java/javaquake.kmz

> Yes, simple location creation is key, Paola, and I'm nearly there.
> Wendy, if you can work some of the current feeds we have into a
> GEO-RSS feed, that would be great.  I can send you the code we have,
> but do you have access to a local PHP/MySQL test server?  Probably
> quicker and safer to test offline.

Please do keep me informed on progress on this. I have a busy wknd ahead at a conference, but would like to work with these feeds further if possible.

Best,
Mikel

--
Paola Di Maio
Systems Analyst
www.content-wire.com

[Mikel Maron]

Cool, will do. Fyi, I wrote up the work I did yesterday on http://brainoff.com/weblog/2006/06/02/1157
It's slightly (or maybe very) geo-geek oriented, but maybe interesting/useful for others here.

-Mikel