Trouble with GeoRSS sample

bhowden

I went to the georss sample in the interactive SDK and it works fine in both 2D and 3D mode. I clicked on the display source tab and hit the copy button to grab a copy. I pasted this into notepad and saved it as geotest.html. This runs in the browser and displays the map and the message about downloading the georss source file which I did. The source georss file looks fine in notepad and in ie (my default xml viewer). When I click on the button to load the georss file, I get the message:

"Cannot load source file". The file loaded event does not fire. As far as I can tell, I have all the file names correct. I am using .XML for an extension. What stupid thing am I missing here The same technique has worked for all the other samples I have tried. Nothing in the forums seems to indicate that this is broken. I have wasted way to much time on this! Can somebody confirm that they have tried the sample Any tricks required

Brian

Duncan Garratt

Try this code and build your XML from here.

The example only seems to work if you use the example URL.

Code Snippet

< xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" >

<rss version="2.0" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#">

<channel>

<title>Hurricane Tracking Current Plot</title>

<link>http://yourserver/</link>

<description>Proof of Concept - Jared Hall</description>

<item><name>TROPICAL STORM ERNESTO</name>

<description>Pressure: 1007 &lt;br&gt; Winds: 35</description>

<geo:lat>21.70</geo:lat>

<geo:lon>-77.80</geo:lon>

<icon>someImageFileonYourMachine.gif</icon>

</item>

</channel>

</rss>

Good Luck

Duncan

bhowden

Thanks for the reply but I am afraid I get the exact same error. I changed the link from "yourserver" to a valid link in my domain and substitued a valid GIF file in the same directory I had the georsstest.html file in for "someImageFileonYourMachine.gif". but I still get an error box with "Unable to load sourcefile."

By "The example only seems to work if you use the example URL" I assume you mean all the same file names. I tried to copy it as faithfully as possible but still had no luck.

Any other ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Brian

Earthware

Hi

are you running this locally off the disk or on a web server I found I had to run it on a webserver to work

Brian

Jared H

That is a good point -- the GeoRSS import is an AJAX XmlHttpRequest. The reference can be a relative path to the hosted map control, but it's a requirement nonetheless that a web server be handling the request..

bhowden

Bingo! That would be my problem as I am running it off a local disk / file. If the samples are updated, it would help if the description mentioned this.....

Brian