Yahoo! Pipes: Location Extractor Module

I saw that crschmidt.net was having a little bit of trouble with the Pipes Location Extractor and I realized that our documentation is too short.

Location Extractor normalizes the location information in feeds that have already been geo-coded in some form. For example, if you are using any of the various forms of geo-coding a feed with tags it should work.

Supported formats are GML, W3C Basic GeoRSS, simple GeoRSS, Yahoo! Local’s API format, KML’s “LookAt” tag, and some variations on nearly all of those. Additionally, there is some support for extracting geo data from links to Yahoo! Maps, Google Maps, and Mapquest.

Once this data is extracted, you can access the Latitude and Longitude via the y:location element. When the data is rendered back out as RSS, we use abbreviated W3C Basic Geo which is just geo:lat and geo:long tags. (Note: this format is supported by the Yahoo! Ajax Maps API)

The feature of geocoding addresses in unstructured text is not yet available, but will be coming shortly via a new module.

Hope that helps!

Remixing the Web with Yahoo! Pipes

Hi All,

I’m pleased to say that we’ve got an early beta of Pipes available today. This is a tool for developers to remix data on the web and we are hoping that you find it useful. Please bear in mind that the initial version is here for feedback, so don’t hesitate to use the links on the site. I’m really looking forward to where this service will lead.
Tim has been kind enough to write about our service better than I could and the same goes for Jeremy.

As for me, my favorite pipe is European Performance Car News. When Pasha Sadri first told me about his idea, I immediately wanted to have this pipe. It pulls automotive news from my favorite sites (Autoblog, Fourtitude, and Jalopnik) and filters them for the makes that I’m interested in. It’s a simple pipe, but it’s an example of how you can use pipes to quickly scratch an itch you’ve been having.