[hackerspaces] aggregating hs' icalendars

[Koen Martens]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:30:57AM +0000, Bob Clough wrote:
> Isnt an ical file just a bunch of ical format appointments concatinated
> together?

Yes, but it's kinda like rss: there's a standard (RFC2445 if i'm not 
mistaken) but many existing ical feeds are not entirely conforming to
this standard.. 

Anyway, just merging the ical files is step 1. Step 2 would be to have
custom ical files generated based on preferences such as 'show me 
everything within 500km from The Hague, NL'. One problem with that is
that not many ical files include machine-parseable location data. There
is the GEO tag to add a lat/lon specification, but I don't think i've
ever seen an ical file implementing it.

Gr,

Koen

> 
> -Bob
> 
> On 16 March 2010 10:25, Koen Martens <gmc at sonologic.nl> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 01:18:50AM +0100, pieter.heremans wrote:
> > > an overview is automagically generated:
> > > http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Property:CalendarFeed
> > >
> > > PS:
> > > .. it fits in our plan for future world domination:
> > > aggregate rss / ical feeds and make it ieasy to query by geo-location
> > > (let's say you want to check what's going on in hs within 100km
> > > distance)
> > >
> > > someone knows a service/project which already has this functionality?
> > > someone interested in putting some time/effort in getting this to work?
> >
> > I've googled around a bit, there are various online services (including
> > yahoo
> > pipes) that can merge several ical feeds, and some scripts. I tried some of
> > the
> > scripts, but they all failed to properly parse the incoming ical files..
> >
> > Gr,
> >
> > Koen
> >
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