Rather than a question, I thought I'd post a few problems (and my corresponding solutions) related to displaying RSS feeds in Google Maps.
(a) Geo-coordinates within RSS feeds are normally included within the <geo:lat> and <geo:long> tags. After much research, debugging and hair pulling, I realized that such tags cannot be read within Chrome. We need to get rid of the ":" in the tagnames. To workaround this bug I've used a simple replace script (PHP). (b) I had earlier found it simpler to use an existing feeds API, so was using Google AJAX Feeds API to get my RSS feed. However, I soon found that this API refreshes RSS feeds held in its cache only at varying time intervals, sometimes up to 1 hour. This was unacceptable to me and so I discovered that the Yahoo User Interface Library offers alternative in its Connection Manager object. http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/connection/ I didn't find resources related to these problems anywhere on the web so hopefully my solutions will help some people. Regards, Pranay --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
