I would like to connect a georss enabled feed to the Virtual Earth block. My RSS format includes the geocoordinates within the following tags:
<georss
oint>45.6147 -122.05351</georssoint>
Is there a simple way to get Popfly to read the first value as the lat and the second value as the longitude
Thanks.
-Seldom Heard
Hi AndyS,
The URL is this: http://feeds.feedburner.com/DraftROEsGEORSS. My problem is that the lat-long data is not expressed in separate lat-long tags, as the existing GeoRSS popfly modules seem to require. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
oint> and then use the split method to get the values.var geoPoint = itemNode.selectSingleNode("georss:point") itemNode.selectSingleNode("georss:point").text : "";
var geoPoints = geoPoint.split(" ");
var lat = geoPoints[0];
var lon = geoPoints[1];
Thanks AndyS, I don't think I would have figured that out in a million years.
Now, if I may further indulge your brilliance, what I need to do is specify the item title link, so it become clickable in the pushpin window. Here's how far I got (not real far). Do you have any thoughts on how to accomplish this Thanks much. - Seldom Heard
http://www.popfly.ms/shell.aspx projectType=mashup#georsswithoutworkingtitlelink
.http://www.popfly.ms/users/Seldom/georsswithoutworkingtitlelink
Andy, this project is now shared.
My user name is Seldom Heard.
Thanks.
Sorry for not getting to this earlier; you can zoom into the virtual earth block and click "Advanced Mode".
Replace the code with something like:
data["VirtualEarthWithTitleLink"] = new Array();
pendingCalls["VirtualEarthWithTitleLink"] = data["GeoRSS for Seldom"].length;
for (var i=0; i<data["GeoRSS for Seldom"].length; i++)
{
try
{
var pushpinTitleText = "<a href='"+data["GeoRSS for Seldom"][i].link+"' target='_blank'>"+data["GeoRSS for Seldom"][i].title+"</a>"
var result = _Seldom_VirtualEarthWithTitleLink.addPushpin(data["GeoRSS for Seldom"][i].latitude, data["GeoRSS for Seldom"][i].longitude, "", data["GeoRSS for Seldom"][i].link, pushpinTitleText , data["GeoRSS for Seldom"][i].description);
pendingCalls["VirtualEarthWithTitleLink"]--;
}
catch (ex)
{
pendingCalls["VirtualEarthWithTitleLink"]--;
environment.reportErrorInLoop(i, ex);
}
}
Which is basically building up a HTML string to pass into the block.
I've shared the mashup as SeldomGeoMaship my user name is Andy.
Thanks Andy. That is not what I was hoping for. What I am looking for is a way to ensure that the title of the respective rss item in the GeoRSS feed is a clickable hyperlink. What I see now is the URL reference as the title, and the what should be the item title as the description. See below. Hope I'm making sense. Thanks. - Seldom
.titleMaybe I am not understanding your questions but if you put <a href="http://www.website.com"> RSS Link </a> it would work and be a hyper link. I think......