This is the last post of the year, in that post, I would like to open a thread about GeoRSS and the question of why Community Server does not support that kind of feed.

GeoRSS is being around for ever, however no blogs allows users to read the data with GeoRSS, we still use standard RSS to subscribe. GeoRSS will also give us the same functionality plus a location on a map, so a point or geometry to pin the blog to a map.

The difference between RSS and GeoRSS is the location is embedded on the feed:

<georss:where> <gml:Point> <gml:pos>45.256 -71.92</gml:pos> </gml:Point> </georss:where> 

So the user can use a map instead of a reader in order to follow the blogs, displaying the blogs geographically.

I do believe that Community Server could take advantage and add a way on the blog options to add a location per post.

Next weekend I'll be working on a Http Handler the returns GeoRSS for Community Server, the feed will be limited by only one location per blog, not per post.

Cheers

Al

UPDATE: GeoRSS for Community Server can be found here