The Geofeed APIs specifically mention US cities and states, so maybe that is all they support in the feeds.
Try www.geonames.org they have a RSS -> GeoRSS convertor Seems to do reasonably well http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http%3A%2F%2Fws.geonames.org%2FrssToGeoRSS%3Ftype%3Dkml%26feedUrl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fnewsrss.bbc.co.uk%252Frss%252Fnewsonline_uk_edition%252Fuk%252Frss.xml Of course geocoding free text stories is still an imprecise science. You will probably have better luck geocoding the regional feeds (as they already have regional 'geocoding'), but dont know of a off the shelf converter that can take that hint, although I have feeling there is a mashup doing this, but dont rememebr it off hand. See also http://labs.metacarta.com/rss-geotagger/ but the services here: http://ondemand.metacarta.com/ might be of particular interest if looking to build a more inteligent converter yourself On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Peter Bleackley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just tried to create a GeoFeed from a BBC News RSS feed. Here's > the feed I created > > http://www.geofeed.net/feeds/253 > > and here it is in map form > > http://www.geofeed.net/geofeed-map/253 > > but it doesn't seem to work. Anyone got any idea what's wrong here? > > Pete Bleackley > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk developer discussion group. To > unsubscribe, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe > backstage-developer [your email] as the message. > -- Barry - www.nearby.org.uk - www.geograph.org.uk - - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk developer discussion group. To unsubscribe, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe backstage-developer [your email] as the message.
