[R-sig-Geo] Help with GeoRSS

[Barry Rowlingson]

On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Barry Rowlingson
<b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:

> My rgdal doesnt have geoRSS, but my command line ogrinfo says there's
> one layer in the file, called 'georss', and if I get that layer info
> it seems to work (note I've downloaded the XML file to my working
> directory - maybe this fails as a URL...):

 Just tried it with the URL and got similar errors to you. OGR can't
read geoRSS from a URL:

http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_georss.html

so it tries geoJSON:

http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_geojson.html

 which can take a URL.

Barry