Google My Maps with RSS

I have been working with Marjorie Och’s Art History seminar to build a virtual exhibit on Venice this semester, and we are using Google’s My Maps collaborative feature to have everybody add points, images, and links to one map. Today I noticed a little RSS button in the My Maps interface, which when I subscribed to gave me all the most recent points added to the maps–including the text, images, and links for each point. How very cool!

And as an added bonus, the feed even works with the CET Embed plugin for WordPress:

Update: For a thoughtful discussion of the implications of an RSS feed coming out of My Maps take a look at Tony Hirst’s post about My Maps as a geo-blogging platform back in February, 2008 (which he already hacked a version of through Yahoo pipes)—damn he is the mashup master!

• San Pietro in Castello July 30, 2008
  Here is an excellent example of the leaning tower and the issues of conservation at the heart of the greatest city in the world.
• Arsenale July 30, 2008
  The Arsenale is one of several locations for the Biennale exhibition.
• Piazza San Marco November 13, 2008
  The Piazza San Marco is the symbolic center of the Venice-Rome conflicts during the Reformation. According to tradition, because of its Apostolic founding, the Doge presides over San Marco the way the Pope presides over the Vatican.
• Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari November 18, 2008
• Ca' Rezzonico November 24, 2008
  Art Gallery where Pietro Longhi's painting "The Quack" is displayed.
• Gallerie dell'Accademia November 24, 2008
  This is where Pietro Longhi's painting "The Concert," is exhibited.
• The Church of San Pantalon November 24, 2008
• The Ducal Palace December 2, 2008
  The Ducal Palace has three main facades: the Sea Facade, the Piazzetta Facade, and the Rio Facade. John Ruskin called this structure the "central building of the world."
• Church of Santa Maria Formosa December 2, 2008
  This is the location of the Church of Santa Maria Formosa, a Renaissance church built in 1492. John Ruskin greatly disliked this church, particularly the grotesque head "leering in bestial degradation" over one of its doors.
• San Marco Basilica December 7, 2008

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