FeedBurner feed geotag problems

FeedBurner lets you geotag your feed.  It's under Optimize... Geotag Your Feed.

Problems:

1. They don't provide you with any syntax examples, if you want to enter lat/long.
2. I am not sure the tags are being properly embedded.

The tags show up as just

<geo:lat>45.41</geo:lat><geo:long>-75.68</geo:long>

aren't they supposed to be wrapped with <geo:Point> </geo:Point> ?
That's what it seems to indicate in a LinuxJournal article I found - Geotagging Web Pages and RSS Feeds.

Of course, I'm not actually sure what tools I can use to manipulate / view a geotagged feed anyway.

Any suggestions?

Comments

[Jon Klem]

Hi Richard,

Touching on a few of your very valid observations:

When we first implemented this service we chose to go without the geo:Point element. The specification seemed to us a bit fuzzy on this with one example showing geo:Point and one without. W3C Basic Geo Vocabulary.

Some example text certainly couldn't hurt. I'll see if I can get something in there.

We've gotten a small trickle of comments over the year since we implemented this feature but not enough to give us any good indication of what types of services are making use of this. Underutilized would be an accurate characterization of this service in its present incarnation.

In general, we're always looking to our publishers to help us enhance and modify services to help serve them best. Please do drop me a line at [email protected] if you think this merits further discussion.

Thank you

Jon Klem
Engineer
FeedBurner