[udig-devel] GSoc Summer Project (RSS in uDig)

[Andrea Aime]

Rui Li ha scritto:
> Hello,
> 
> My name is Rui Li and a new GSoc student working on a RSS tool in
> uDig. Project started two weeks ago, it has been very nice working
> with my mentor Richard Gould. Many valuable suggestions I have
> received from him. I am sending this message out to see if there is
> anyone who is also interested in RSS, we will appreciate any of your
> comments on this project.
> 
> The blog created for this project is: http://planet-soc.com/node/1065
> There is a final mock up showing the final representation.
> 
> We are trying to find some feeds of rental listing as the case of my
> project, currently we found one http://jplistings.ca/rssfeed.rent.php
> which covers many major cities in North America, most of which is
> within Vancouver area. Only one problem I found right now is that some
> additional information on the listing is Japanese, probably might
> influence the audience a little bit.
> 
> To apply this, Richard had inspired me on the management of RSS feeds.
> We were thinking to  implementing these RSS feeds as a Catalog in
> uDig. Hence a user may find a GeoRSS feed copy the URL into uDig
> (adding it to the catalog). After this, a user could search and
> present qualified points on the map (In my case, the qualified rental
> information).
> 
> Sorry for the long message. And any comment on this project like
> implementing the feeds is more than welcomed.

Just a quick note. Justin (cc'ed) is implementing a GeoRSS output format
in Geoserver, so you may be interested in trying out a Geoserver trunk
nightlies (http://geo.openplans.org/nightly/trunk/) and turn whatever 
data you want into GeoRSS format (that
may give you a little more latitude when it comes to finding data sources).
If you're interested and need support, join us on the #geoserver
channel at freenode, or use the project mailing lists (
http://geo.openplans.org/nightly/trunk)

Cheers
Andrea