Geo Mashup

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 The Geo Mashup plugin adds geographic tagging of your posts and blog. You can enter an address, points on a map, upload a GPX log, or enter latitude & longitude. You can then embed Maps, location tags, and ground tracks in your site and your blog entries. Makes your feeds GeoRSS compatible and adds KML output. (http://georss.org/geopress ).  To use this plugin, do the following:

  1. Go to your blog Dashboard
  2. Click on Plugins > Installed
  3. Activate the “Geo Mashup” plugin
  4. Click on Geo Mashup in your Dashboard to configure

NOTE: This plugin that requires setting up a GoogleMaps key.

Once Geo Mashup is activated and configured, to use in posts, do the following:

  1. Tag a place for a single post.
  2. Assign a page for the global mashup.
  3. Adjust the settings of the mashup in the Setting panel (optional)

For more information about this plugin in general see the wordpress-geo-mashup project site.  For more information about the use of geospatial technologies at Middlebury, see:

Geospatial Technology in LIS

Teaching with Technology > tags > GIS

LIS Wiki > Geospatial Information

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