GeoTerrestrial » georss http://blog.geoterrestrial.com LOCATION DONE RIGHT Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:05:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 en hourly 1 GeoGroups now have friendly urls and RSS feeds with GeoRSS http://blog.geoterrestrial.com/2009/11/14/geogroups-now-have-friendly-urls-and-geo-rss-feeds/ http://blog.geoterrestrial.com/2009/11/14/geogroups-now-have-friendly-urls-and-geo-rss-feeds/#comments Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:01:20 +0000 geoterrestrial http://blog.geoterrestrial.com/?p=30 The url scheme is significantly simplified. Groups now have friendly urls, for example weather alert would be http://www.geoterrestrial.com/groups/weather-alert/
This makes it easier to remember or pass around links to your groups. If the group name has special characters or spaces, replace with hyphens while typing in the address bar.

Additionally, now you can subscribe to an RSS feed for any group. Simply append /feed/ at the end of any group url, for example http://www.geoterrestrial.com/groups/fishing-spots/feed/ . Popular browsers should automatically show the orange RSS icon whenever a groups page is accessed. Also, since posts are “GeoPosts”, and this is a “Geo*” website, the RSS feed is GeoRSS enabled. Compatible GeoRSS clients can instantly show a geogroup’s RSS feed on a map. For example http://www.geoterrestrial.com/groups/khaytsus-public/feed/

Similarly, users now have their own pages at http://www.geoterrestrial/users/khaytsus/ , and an RSS feed for the user’s posts at http://www.geoterrestrial/users/khaytsus/feed/.

Also, even individual posts now have their own page, ala blogs. For example http://www.geoterrestrial.com/posts/680724/cracker-barrel/. An RSS feed for monitoring post comments will be added soon.

Remember, regardless of how any page is accessed, a visitor will only be able to see content he or she is specifically allowed to see. Posts which are listed in open public groups without any access restrictions will also gradually start showing up in web-search results.

-The GeoTerrestrial Team

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