1-Choose a RSS Service. Select the ones wrote in XML only. To check this click the RSS or XML orange logo and see if the linked page is written in XML, like this, for example:

http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=PAXX0007&u=f

Tip: Try to select a service that includes in the text some kind of information about a geographical place, (name of a city, etc).

2- In GE create a Folder. Inside it, create a Network Link Folder.



In the Link line paste this first part of an URL (all this text as it is here, with the “=” at the end):
http://ws.geonames.org/rssToGeoRSS?type=kml&feedUrl=



Click OK...calm down, don´t be anxious..

3- Go to the page where you have the RSS or XML logo of the service you choosed. Right click over the RSS / XML logo and copy his URL.

4-Now, we need an “external service” that is the translator from RSS to get the second part of our NL URL (remember we already have the first part of the URL), so, go to this page:

http://www.geonames.org/rss-to-georss-converter.html

Go down at that page till you find: URL Encoding



In the “Your Feed:” space, paste the RSS/XML URL you copy with right click over the RSS/XML logo.
Then press the “Encode URL” button. You´ll get a new URL in “The encoded feed :” space. Copy all that URL and go back to GE.




5- Right click over the NL you created (that doesn´t work, remember?), choose Properties . Paste the URL you just copy at the end of the one already there. Inmediately after the “=” sign, with no space there.
Press OK. Check the NL to activate it.





What happened?....

6- If you want to make several NL. copy the one you´ve just done, paste it in the Folder and edit it. Keep the first part of the URL, just replace the second part (after the =) with a new URL that you get in Geonames (doing the "translate")

Enjoy it!