GeoTerrestrial » geoterrestrial 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 Your universal mylocation url http://blog.geoterrestrial.com/2009/11/20/your-universal-mylocation-url/ http://blog.geoterrestrial.com/2009/11/20/your-universal-mylocation-url/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:02:11 +0000 geoterrestrial http://blog.geoterrestrial.com/?p=42 If you are a GeoGroups or GPSToday user, you can now allow iPhone (or any other mobile platform) users to track your location via your Universal MyLocation Url, http://www.geoterrestrial.com/mylocation/username, for example http://www.geoterrestrial.com/mylocation/casper2.
Share this link with others to give anyone an easy way to request permission to see your location. Once the user has access, besides showing your location it will also allow the viewer to chat privately with you within the same web-page.

Note that this page will show anything only if you have explicitly shared your location, and only to users authorized by you. If you have shared your location in a public group which has no access restrictions, then your location will be visible to everyone.

]]> http://blog.geoterrestrial.com/2009/11/20/your-universal-mylocation-url/feed/ 2 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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