Comments on: Google Maps: RSS feeds of data into My Maps? http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/01/17/google-maps-rss-feeds-of-data-into-my-maps/ Developing Knowledge about Local Search Tue, 21 May 2013 21:28:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Most Popular Articles from 2010 and Before | Understanding Google Maps & Local Search http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/01/17/google-maps-rss-feeds-of-data-into-my-maps/comment-page-1/#comment-543539 Most Popular Articles from 2010 and Before | Understanding Google Maps & Local Search Sun, 09 Jan 2011 15:44:35 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/01/17/google-maps-rss-feeds-of-data-into-my-maps/#comment-543539 [...] 9- Google Maps: RSS feeds of data into My Maps? [...]

]]> By: Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local Search » The time for your Geo Sitemap in NOW | Developing Knowledge about Local Search http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/01/17/google-maps-rss-feeds-of-data-into-my-maps/comment-page-1/#comment-244268 Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local Search » The time for your Geo Sitemap in NOW | Developing Knowledge about Local Search Thu, 29 May 2008 12:29:51 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/01/17/google-maps-rss-feeds-of-data-into-my-maps/#comment-244268 [...] location kml in sitemap. It has been clear that Google has been scouring the web looking for and indexing KML files and it stood to reason that having a KML file associated with your website would give Google clear [...]

]]> By: Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local Search » Google Maps indexing and mapping geoRSS & KML files | Developing Knowledge about Local Search http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/01/17/google-maps-rss-feeds-of-data-into-my-maps/comment-page-1/#comment-191370 Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local Search » Google Maps indexing and mapping geoRSS & KML files | Developing Knowledge about Local Search Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:51:13 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/01/17/google-maps-rss-feeds-of-data-into-my-maps/#comment-191370 [...] other day when I wrote about the RSS feed results showing up in Google Maps and some of those results showing up in the Maps results I learned a [...]

]]> By: Lior Ron http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/01/17/google-maps-rss-feeds-of-data-into-my-maps/comment-page-1/#comment-190936 Lior Ron Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:11:35 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/01/17/google-maps-rss-feeds-of-data-into-my-maps/#comment-190936 The feeds can be from any kml or georss source on the web, not just Mapplets. Try searching for “flickr” on Google maps as an example

]]> By: Mike Blumenthal http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/01/17/google-maps-rss-feeds-of-data-into-my-maps/comment-page-1/#comment-190014 Mike Blumenthal Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:53:20 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/01/17/google-maps-rss-feeds-of-data-into-my-maps/#comment-190014 Lior-

Thanks for the reference.

Are the feeds then just from Maplets?

Mike

]]> By: Lior Ron http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/01/17/google-maps-rss-feeds-of-data-into-my-maps/comment-page-1/#comment-189872 Lior Ron Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:19:17 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/01/17/google-maps-rss-feeds-of-data-into-my-maps/#comment-189872 Mike,

You can read more in our blog post about mixing user-generated results in search results
http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2007/10/community-maps-in-your-search-results_1522.html
any KML or GeoRSS found on the web can potentially be mixed into Google maps search results

]]> By: Barry Hunter http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/01/17/google-maps-rss-feeds-of-data-into-my-maps/comment-page-1/#comment-189691 Barry Hunter Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:36:26 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/01/17/google-maps-rss-feeds-of-data-into-my-maps/#comment-189691 Yes Google does index GeoRSS and KML files/feeds it finds in the wild in a Geo Index, mainly accessible though the ‘See community maps’ link you mentioned. But they are used in normal search results at times (mainly when there are few or no business listings), and available in Google earth too.

A bit more about it here:
http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/kmlSearch.html
and http://code.google.com/apis/maps/sitemap.html

Of course Google doest mention exactly how these are ranked, but there has been a few patent filed in this area, as well as they probably use something like the PageRank.

Barry

]]> By: Mike Blumenthal http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/01/17/google-maps-rss-feeds-of-data-into-my-maps/comment-page-1/#comment-189685 Mike Blumenthal Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:23:00 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/01/17/google-maps-rss-feeds-of-data-into-my-maps/#comment-189685 I didn’t realize that feeds were usable this way(thanks Barry & Gregor for that info) but these results are being inserted in the standard results without my using the feed or my subscribing to it in My Maps.

Jean, I guess I didn’t understand the value of a maplet if that is the case. I have not seen results yet included in the standard Map results.

If you search on Chiropractic Idaho Falls Id in the map view and select See community maps at the bottom you will see thiese results mixed in regardless of whether you have subscirbed to the map or not.

Miriam, yes the feed, which you see in its entirety, comes from the source (in this case Topix or MerchantCircle) but in a real world search like the one above it would only show “relevant” pins. For example if you searched on Dr Joe’s Chiropractic Center Idaho Falls Id you will find one of the pins from the feed mixed into the results.

How Google is going to determine “authority” of results from community maps and how they decide when and how to integrate into the standard results and whether a community mao info is included in a OneBox result are all questions for the future.
Mike

]]> By: Trusted Feeds and Google Maps « Screenwerk http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/01/17/google-maps-rss-feeds-of-data-into-my-maps/comment-page-1/#comment-189677 Trusted Feeds and Google Maps « Screenwerk Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:02:55 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/01/17/google-maps-rss-feeds-of-data-into-my-maps/#comment-189677 [...] Feeds and Google Maps This is an interesting post from Mike Blumenthal, who discovered some apparently trusted feeds going into Google Maps (My [...]

]]> By: Gregor J. Rothfuss http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/01/17/google-maps-rss-feeds-of-data-into-my-maps/comment-page-1/#comment-189671 Gregor J. Rothfuss Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:40:20 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/01/17/google-maps-rss-feeds-of-data-into-my-maps/#comment-189671 “Well it appears that Google Maps is allowing a limited number of “trusted” partners to provide exactly such feeds directly into My Maps. ”

Sorry to burst your bubble, but you can subscribe to any geo feeds you like. Try it with http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=http:%2F%2Fapi.flickr.com%2Fservices%2Ffeeds%2Fgeo%2F%3Fid%3D35468159852%40N01&ie=UTF8&z=3&om=0

once you click on “Save to My Maps”, it shows up in My Maps under “Created by others”.

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