As IrishDev.com are now publishing RSS feeds for their jobs listings I thought it would be interesting to take the Latest ICT Jobs feed and use the Geonames RSS to GeoRSS converter to see how well it worked at extracting geographical information about those job locations and injecting the corresponding lattitude and longtitude coordinates into the new feed.
It may not be perfect but it did pick up correctly on positions in Dublin, Cork and Kerry. You can check it by using the form at the bottom of the page to view a converted feed with GoogleEarth. Or just open this KMZ file.
May 17, 2006
That is really really fricking cool.
Posted by: Damien Mulley | May 17, 2006 at 12:43 PM
Hey there, set up a mapufacture map for this feed at http://mapufacture.com/georss/map/show/15. mapufacture is a new GeoRSS aggregator. Cheers, Mikel
Posted by: Mikel Maron | May 17, 2006 at 01:39 PM
Wow, thanks Mikel, that's really great! :)
Posted by: James Corbett | May 17, 2006 at 01:51 PM
I have reworked the rss to georss converter and added some natural language processing features and a parameter "country". It should now correctly geolocate near all job postings (with the parameter "country=IE"). If you still spott an error please let me know.
At the time of this writing it finds jobs in Dublin, Ballinrobe, Killorglin, Glasnevin (near Dublin) and Cork
Cheers,
Marc
Posted by: marc | May 23, 2006 at 05:26 PM
Wow, thanks Marc! Much appreciated.
Posted by: James Corbett | May 23, 2006 at 07:26 PM