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

[Rui Li]

Thanks Adrea,

It is really informative and interesting. I would like to try it out
in my project. I just subscribed the geoserver mailing list :)

Thanks,
Rui

On 6/11/07, Andrea Aime <aaime at openplans.org> wrote:
> 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
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