[hackerspaces] aggregating hs' icalendars

[Bob Clough]

we could use the lat/lon tag from the wiki if no location is supplied.

On 16 March 2010 10:35, Koen Martens <gmc at sonologic.nl> wrote:

> 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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