I’ve been meaning to build a GeoRSS exporter for ArcGIS for a while and this post finally gave me a kick up the arse. You can download the setup for it here, at present this is very much beta, but give it a shot if you want and feel free to mail me when it breaks – it’s been built against ArcGIS 9.1 i’ll post a 9.2 version in the next week or so.
To use it run the setup.exe and follow the steps as normal – once installed open ArcMap and go to Tools>Customise to open this..
Drag the Export GeoRSS tool onto a toolbar in ArcMap.
Ok to use the tool load some data and select the layer you want to export – the tools supports selections on data, but your layer must contain a FID field (I’ve tested on shapefile and ESRI PGDB). When you’ve selected the layer the tool will become active – click on the tool to open this…
If you have a selection on your layer the ‘export selected features only’ option will be available – toggle it if required -then fill in the feed details. The entry details area allows you to define fields on your feature class which will be used to populate the title, link and summary element of the export.
The encoding section is not available – will be once i add support for simple encoding. Once done your form might look like this….
Ok press export – if everything goes to plan you’ll get this..
If not… i’ve stuffed up so email me and i’ll see what i can do.
Anyway you’re export should be available on the root of your C Drive named after your layer (layername.xml). So push this upto your webserver and test it…
bingo..
So far I’ve tested this with points, line and polygons, i need to support more feature types, build it against 9.2, externalise some of the config, support the simple encoding etc etc etc.
Anyway – hope it helps getting your data out and about easier if your an esri user.
I haven’t tested it or anything, but it looks niiiiiiiice…
this looks great! I’m going to play with it ASAP…a quick question is this GeoRSS or GeoRSS GML
louis,
would be good to get some feedback when you’ve used it – the version available for download now allows you to export to GeoRSS with the gml encoding only. I have now got a version which allows you to export using the simple encoding too, but it just needs a bit more work before i post it – i’ll probably post it to ArcScripts and here.
Hi,
When installing, I got an error “Unable to get installer types in the c:\program files\map butcher\…mbgeorssexporter.dll assembly. One or more types in the assembly unable to load.”
Jim
Jim,
I suspect that you’re either a) trying to install on a machine which hasn’t got the .net support installed (this is not a included in the default install of ArcGIS or b) you’re trying to install on a different version – what version are you using? and is the .net support installed?
I’m going to post a new version onto ArcScripts soon so keep you’re eye on my blog or ArcScripts for details
I havent been able to test it yet, as I am stuck on ArcGIS 9.1, but have you tested this against donut polygons and also overlapping polygons?
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