On popular request I've updated the rss feeds to include latitude and longitude data.
I added with two extra fields as in the following data. Suggestions for better ways to do it are welcome. (Accordingly this is subject to change at any moment! :-) )
<item rdf:about="http://ericrichardson.com/">
<title>eWorld: eric richardson meets the web</title>
<link>http://ericrichardson.com/</link>
<description>About 9.4 km away. Near Los Angeles.</description>
<geourl:longitude>-118.25201</geourl:longitude>
<geourl:latitude>34.0456</geourl:latitude>
</item>Please let me know if you do anything with this.
(Another change I did last week was adding Google Maps links to pages for sites in England and Ireland. Let me know if this is not working right for you of if you have more suggestions for maps)
Cool!
You have a few options:
xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#"
xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"
xmlns:contact="http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/pim/contact#"
-34.9502
138.5831
trainedmonkey
http://trainedmonkey.com/
Near Los Angeles.
-118.2473
34.048
Adelaide
South Australia
5034
Australia
-34.9502
138.5831
The more the merrier!
Facilitate autodiscovery in your HTML, right up the top in your HEAD section:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rdf+xml" title="RSS 1.0 feed" href="http://geourl.org/near/?p=http://beta.plazes.com/plaze/683b662d9f6b849f852bf3eea7fd05b8/;format=rss10"
In my blog, I use the http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos# namespace. I don't know why you would want a separate one for geourl - it's the same data.
It'd be really cool if geourl understood syndication feeds, complete with geo-tagged entries, but that's a bit off.
see http://staticfree.info/blog/index.rss for an example of the namespace as I use it.
Latitude and longitude data in the img tag
example: «img href="mountain.png" alt="...." title="..." long="7.3343" lat="3.4345" /»
Add GoogleMap link also for italian weblog (possibly in satellite view, because only this is available at this moment).
try yahoo maps api. no need to type in a lat/long. just use an address. googles api doesnt follow any standard geo xml (they made their own up, like MS). yahoo's follows standards. http://developer.yahoo.net/maps/index.html
Image-Example should look like the following in xHTML to be correct:
«img src="mountain.png" alt="..." title="..."
xlink:href="mountains.html" xlink:type="simple"
geo:long="7.3343" geo:lat="3.4345" /»
Using this u can mark up each and every xHTML-element and not just Pages.
If you want to blog on a server that already has all of this functionality built in, go to www.Excio.com. it will enable you to geocode all of your blog posts. Very cool.
I'v been thinking for some applications can pickup my GPS data (my location) and list the query result by the order. Similarly with the
IP address by country identity.
So I connect with my GPS, I can obtain the search result that much relate to my location.
Or in google site with this GeoURL option,optimize the search result and make a sense to my location related result.
Anybody know how to get geotags onto an MSN Space?
I would prefer the http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos# namespace, too. We are about to integrate Geo-Info based on those tags to our Feed-Directory all4rss.com
We already use it in our CMS all the time...
see http://nexecutive.de/index.php?i=content_rss&categoryID=53&languCode=de for an example
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