How to Aggregate a Google My Maps RSS Feed Into Drupal

RSS feeds are published in the XML language, and you can harness the power of this language to aggregate and import a Google Maps RSS feed into your Drupal CMS. You must configure your Maps RSS XML file to point to the location, and the remaining code is set up in the Drupal dashboard. The feed and parser modules aggregate and parse the XML file's data with no further effort of your part.

Instructions

1. Open the dashboard management utility by logging in with your Drupal admin username and password. Click the "Feeds" dashboard element. In the list of options, check the "Enabled" option and click "Save" to enable feed imports.

2. Click the "Feeds" icon to open the settings. In the Fetcher section, click "Settings" to open the configuration window for the feed element. Type the URL for the Google Maps XML file in the settings window and click "Save."

3. Click the "Change" link next to the Parser section header. In the list of options, choose the “Maps XML” file section that you want to display in the Drupal module. For instance, choose "Map Description" and "Title" to show these two elements in the Drupal module.

4. Click the "Save" button and open your Drupal main site in your browser. Review the imported data to verify that the feed imports correctly into your Drupal CMS.