I've refined what I was doing with GeoRSS a bit. I am now able to use human-readable locations (addresses), so it's much easier to post location information, which I think is critical to this being useful to any non-geek. I had to switch to Yahoo! Maps because their API accepts addresses and does the geocoding (turning the address into latitude/longitude coordinates). I think the Google Maps solution will be better in the long run, but I wanted something that anyone using Blogs at Penn State could implement without us having to do any changes to the MoveableType system.
And the end result, consumed by a Yahoo! Map looks like this:
So, posting with this system now looks like this (note the "location" field):
And the end result, consumed by a Yahoo! Map looks like this:
Hi Chris ... this is really nice. I was wondering if you'd be up to doing a lunch time workshop on this? I know I'd really like to learn a bit more about it and I can imagine there are others in ETS and around campus who'd like to as well. I really like the notion of being able to use an address to mark the geo location. Nice find!