OUseful.Info, the blog…

A tweet from Jim Groom earlier this week alerted me to a post he had just written entitled Google My Maps with RSS.

Now some time earlier this year, I’d hacked together a Yahoo Pipe that would generate an RSS feed from the KML feed output of a map, and so provide an ad hoc geoblogging environment from Google MyMaps (MyMaps GeoBlogger – Blogging From Google Maps).

But the availability of the RSS feed direct from the MyMap just makes this a whole lot easier…

And yes, the RSS output is geocoded (that is, the feed is GeoRSS):

PS Google also just changes the Terms of Service on Google Maps. As with all rights issues, I’m not totally sure I understand what the actual consequences are… For a discussion, see Ed Parsons’ Who reads the Terms of Service anyway...

PPS for easy maps data mashups, check out GeoCommons.com. The CogDog gives an eduview here: Geocommons Makes it Easy for Anyone to Mashup Data & Maps. You might also find this technique for geocoding data from a Google spreadsheet useful…