Technical Solutions

GeoRSS Manager

Issue 1-0
16/06/06

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Document History
Issue Date Author Reason
0-1 03/05/06 P. stone Draft for alpha software release

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Table of Contents
1 Introduction..................................................................................................................4
1.1 Demo ..................................................................................................................4
2 Running Application ....................................................................................................5
2.1 Toolbar................................................................................................................5
2.2 Menu...................................................................................................................5
2.3 Configuration Tool...............................................................................................5
2.4 Hotlink.................................................................................................................5

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1 Introduction
1.1 Demo
This demo is designed to show the ability of Professional to talk to GeoRSS
Feeds. There are a number of standards involved some of which are supported.
The feeds supported are RSS, XML or Atom. The Title Link and description will
be stored from the items of the feed.
The geographical elements of the feed can be any of the following
• World Wide Web Consortium version (W3C Geo)
W3C Geo was first out of the gate, It’s sometimes referred to as
"geo:lat/geo:lon" since those are the names of the tags. W3C Geo supports
just points.
• Simple GeoRSS
It's built on a profile (subset) of OGC's Geography Mark-up Language (GML)
specifically chosen to make it easy for programmers to implement and for
others to use. Includes support for other geometries and coordinate systems.
• GML or Pro GeoRSS
Goes to the next level of complexity and allows different coordinate reference
systems and all of Geography Mark-up Language (GML) for tagging content
in the feed.

In this demo only support for Lat/Long (WGS84) Points is included.

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2 Running Application
2.1 Toolbar
1 2

The first icon (1) launches the configuration tool. This allows you to add or
remove feeds and open feeds for viewing.
The second icon (2) refreshes all open feeds.

2.2 Menu

The menu does the same as the toolbar but from the menu. You can also exit the
tool.

2.3 Configuration Tool

To add a Feed enter it’s address and select a point style to display for that feed.
Then press ‘Add’.
To remove a feed select it and press ‘Remove’.
To refresh a feed or open a feed for viewing select it and press ‘Open/Refresh’
To refresh the data of all the open feeds press ‘Refresh All’

2.4 Hotlink
With the hotlink tool selected the GeoRSS Items will link out to their RSS link.

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