Convert any RSS or Atom feed into GeoRSS or KML using MetaCarta's OnDemand GeoTagger.

Load the resulting geo-enabled feed into GeoRSS readers (such as Mapufacture) or KML viewers (such as Google Earth).

Current Version: 0.1 (developer info below)

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Quick Start

Fill in this form to construct links to KML and GeoRSS forms of your feed:
KML:



GeoRSS:

URL to your RSS feed
Name of your RSS feed
Minimum GeoConfidence (default: 0.3) Selects the tradeoff between precision and recall.
Service version 0.1

Frequent users: drag this bookmarklet: RSS GeoTagger onto your browser toolbar. Just browse to a feed, click the bookmarklet, and it will populate the form above with the URL of the feed.

If your RSS channel has an icon element, it will be used as a KML Overlay.



For Developers

For KML output

http://labs.metacarta.com/rss-geotagger/KML?version=0.1&format=ENUM&url=URL&mingeoconfidence=FLOAT&feedname=STRING

For GeoRSS output

http://labs.metacarta.com/rss-geotagger/GeoRSS?version=0.1&url=URL&mingeoconfidence=FLOAT

Parameters

parameterdata typedescriptionexample
"url"url
(required)		The full URL of the RSS feed to be converted"http://graphics8.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml"
"version"constant
(required)		The version of the webservice method"0.1"
"format"enumeration
(optional)		Determines the KML flavor. Can be 'kml', 'kmz' for compressed KML, or 'networklink' for a kml file containing a regularly updating link to a kml feed. Default is 'kml'."kml", "kmz", "networklink"
"mingeoconfidence"float
(optional)		A cutoff threshold for GeoConfidence required for an extracted location reference to be included in the converted feed, from 0.0 to 1.0. Default is 0.3"0.0", "0.35", "1"
"feedname"string
(optional)		The name of the feed as you'd like it to appear in the Google Earth list view"New York Times", "Fresno Knitting Blog"

Examples:

Converting RSS to KML feed
Seattle Times

http://labs.metacarta.com/rss-geotagger/KML?format=networklink&url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/rss/seattletimes.xml&version=0.1

point83 Forum

http://labs.metacarta.com/rss-geotagger/KML?format=networklink&url=http://www.point83.com/forum/rss.php&version=0.1&feedname=geeks+on+bikes

Converting RSS to raw KML
San Francisco Chronicle:

http://labs.metacarta.com/rss-geotagger/KML?url=http://feeds.sfgate.com/sfgate/rss/feeds/bayarea&mingeoconfidence=0.3&version=0.1&feedname=SFNews

New York Times

http://labs.metacarta.com/rss-geotagger/KML?url=http://graphics8.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml&version=0.1&feedname=New+York+Times

Google Blog

http://labs.metacarta.com/rss-geotagger/KML?format=kml&url=http://googleblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default&mingeoconfidence=0.7&version=0.1

Converting RSS to compressed KML
BoingBoing

http://labs.metacarta.com/rss-geotagger/KML?format=kmz&url=http://feeds.feedburner.com/boingboing/iBag&mingeoconfidence=0.0&version=0.1&feedname=BoingBoing

Reddit

http://labs.metacarta.com/rss-geotagger/KML?format=kmz&url=http://reddit.com/.rss&version=0.1

Converting RSS to GeoRSS
San Francisco Chronicle

http://labs.metacarta.com/rss-geotagger/GeoRSS?url=http://feeds.sfgate.com/sfgate/rss/feeds/bayarea&mingeoconfidence=0.3&version=0.1

New York Times

http://labs.metacarta.com/rss-geotagger/GeoRSS?url=http://graphics8.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml&version=0.1

Google Blog

http://labs.metacarta.com/rss-geotagger/GeoRSS?url=http://googleblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default&mingeoconfidence=0.7&version=0.1

BoingBoing

http://labs.metacarta.com/rss-geotagger/GeoRSS?url=http://feeds.feedburner.com/boingboing/iBag&mingeoconfidence=0.0&version=0.1