Atompubbase

Sean Gillies

2008-01-09 00:00

Joe Gregorio's atompubbase looks promising. To try it out, I ran the apexer program against my Hammock site:

sean@lenny:~$ apexer service http://sgillies.net/hammock/index.atom
sean@lenny:~$ apexer lc
0   Places
sean@lenny:~$ apexer collection 0
sean@lenny:~$ apexer ls
0   Theater at Hierapolis
1   Springfield/Ninoe
2   Springs at Hierapolis
3   Big Hendy Grove
4   Little Hendy Grove
5   Navarro Vineyards
6   Wehlener Sonnenuhr
7   Pic St-Loup
8   Vineyards Domaine de l'Hortus
9   Vineyards Domaine de l'Hortus
sean@lenny:~$ apexer entry 8
sean@lenny:~$ apexer get
sean@lenny:~$ cat entry
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
  xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss">
  <title>Vineyards Domaine de l'Hortus</title>
  <link rel="alternate" type="text/html"
    href="http://sgillies.net/hammock/places/10.html"/>
  <link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"
    href="http://sgillies.net/hammock/places/10"/>
  <link rel="edit-media" type="application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml"
    href="http://sgillies.net/hammock/places/10.kml"/>
  <summary>
    Mourvedre, according to http://www.wineanorak.com/hortus.htm
  </summary>
  <author><name>anonymous</name></author>
  <published>2007-08-06T16:57:40-06:00</published>
  <updated>2007-08-06T16:57:40-06:00</updated>
  <georss:where>
    <gml:Point xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml">
      <gml:pos>43.7896297407 3.83361116447</gml:pos>
    </gml:Point>
  </georss:where>
  <content/>
</entry>

I edited that entry and posted it back to the collection:

sean@lenny:~$ apexer create entry --content-type="application/atom+xml"
sean@lenny:~$ apexer ls --all
0   Theater at Hierapolis
1   Springfield/Ninoe
...
60   Duplicate Vineyards Domaine de l'Hortus

See the result. Publishing geodata can be as simple as that. I don't think AtomPub is going to take over the geospatial world in 2008 -- few of our architects have even heard of it yet let alone begun to dabble outside WxS -- but we'll see a few more high profile implementations. Google Earth as an AtomPub client maybe? The services (Picasa, YouTube, etc) are certainly there already.