On Oct 14, 9:36 am, Kludge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for your insight Lance. I do think that it should be easy to
> do and I would like to understand why only pieces of the information
> are included in the JSON representation. One would assume that at the
> very least the JSON object should include enough information to
> position and portray its representation.
Which information is "exactly" that .. I might want to use the artists
name in a flickr
feed to make an icon... or I might want to use the date of the feed to
colorize
the icons...
I can use the api to get at ALL of the contents of any xml source....
RSS feeds
are not the kind you really want googles cacheing to even have to deal
with
so I am less than certain why they are in GGeoXml (ie one might be
better
off not using GGeoXml to avoid cacheing than giving it a randomly
changing
url name like people do.)
One result is one might want a generic GeoJSON conversion service that
just redirects
the XML from a dynamic feed (converting to json) without storing it so
you can access it from anywhere
. If the above sounds to you just like a very small script... whose
first ingredient is
just the same as a good ol xml proxy script ... you are right.
Unless I am out in left
> field here this should be a mimimum requirement.
I dont think you are left field necessarily it is just I
also dont think you have clearly enough defined what
you would see done to improve things.
In my opinion, the
> GMAPI needs some improvement in this area and so discussions such as
> these are valuable.
Problem is "some improvement" I might agree with.. but without having
a clear new feature request...
>
> Cheers
>
> On Oct 11, 8:36 am, Lance Dyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Kludge wrote:
> > > I may be missing something here and probably am since this should be
> > > really easy to do... I would like to assign custom icons to points
> > > being brought in from a GeoRSS feed based on a property of the item
> > > being portrayed.
>
> > Why do you think it should be easy? or what would you like to make it easy?
> > Remember what you have out of GGeoXml is not the original xml .. GGeoXml
> > never has that ... it gets sent to the google servers and converted in
> > to json to allow
> > cross platform access.
>
> > One complication I have found with rss feeds .. the sources change there
> > feed
> > format periodically.
>
> > What part of the feed do you want access to so that you can customize
> > the icons...
> > I have GeoXml using images found from the descriptions in this
> > examplehttp://www.dyasdesigns.com/geoxml/myweather.htm
>
> > I think proxies are rather simple what deployment issues are you finding.
On Oct 14, 9:36 am, Kludge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for your insight Lance. I do think that it should be easy to
> do and I would like to understand why only pieces of the information
> are included in the JSON representation. One would assume that at the
> very least the JSON object should include enough information to
> position and portray its representation. Unless I am out in left
> field here this should be a mimimum requirement. In my opinion, the
> GMAPI needs some improvement in this area and so discussions such as
> these are valuable.
>
> Cheers
>
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