John,
This is perfectly fine to do.
All that the Simile loaders do is extract data from a data source (JSON, XML,
SPARQL) create new Event objects and push into an EventSource object. It's
really easy to write your own function to do the same.
With a little extra work,
I'm just getting started with SIMILE, and I have to express that I'm
very impressed with this. I'm currently working on a project that
initially took me to the TIMEMAP project, but after looking at how it
integrates with google maps, I decided this is where I should be
working from directly.
I
