Kiva API / Drupal Test Site

Wow! It's been an arduous few weeks -- trying to suck up data from Kiva's (deprecated) RSS feeds, then map it to CCK fields (using the incredible feedapi_mapper and the equally distinguished feedapi_parser_exhaustive), and then map those nodes to an actual map using the (also awesome) nicemap. (Can I buy stock in Development Seed?)

I came close a few times, but couldn't get the thing to work with any kind of consistency.

Enter quickcel. Again. In a flash, he's written a proof-of-concept extension for feedapi that translates kiva's json perfectly. A few small additions to his code and I'm mapping longitude and latitude to CCK fields.

And the nicemap? No problem at all. It's not the prettiest thing in the world, but this is a huge step forward. Needless to say, this parser will be packaged into the kiva module (along with some other goodies).

Once again, huge thanks to quickcel!