No. Map data wouldn't be very useful in an RSS format :) I mean more services and sites should provide APIs to provide access to the DATA. While twitter have

No. Map data wouldn't be very useful in an RSS format :) I mean more services and sites should provide APIs to provide access to the DATA. While twitter have somewhat recanted on this recently, the ability for anyone to create a twitter client and use/display the data provided by twitter opened up things far more than just using "open formats". The key point is, that there's a difference between DATA and DISPLAY - and I think this article missed that point. However, it's concerns are valid EDIT: Whoops - replied too fast, just saw your full comment after edit, everything except the flat 'no' still stands :)