Geoweb - because location matters
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Geoweb because location matters Cédric Hüsler BlogCamp Switzerland Zürich - October 2007 Photo by hira3
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A summary of technologies that make the Geoweb - or better - help contributing location tagged information. Tailored to bloggers.
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Geowebbecause location matters
Cédric HüslerBlogCamp SwitzerlandZürich - October 2007Photo by hira3
+ HTML+ Links Web
BASICS
+ Web+ Feed (RSS, Atom)+ Comment+ Trackback+ Ping Blogging
BASICS
+ Web+ Map+ GeoRSS+ GeoTag (μF, ICBM, ..)+ KML/GML GeoWeb
0.5
Photo by Antti
47.37633977916201 8.547770977020264
Don’t Shoot!
<meta name="ICBM" content="47.566, 7.588" />
InterContinental Ballistic Missile
add geo context to a web page by providing coordinates(aka GeoURL)
Blog Map
Photo by NASAkeep talking...
GeoRSS<rss> <channel> <georss:point>47.4152 8.5519</georss:point> <item> <georss:point>48.135 11.5490</georss:point> </item> </channel></rss>
3 encodings: W3C Geo | Simple | GML Profile
Note to self: show Flickr, Plazes, Blog
Plug-in WordPress and MovableType:
GeoPress
Photo by Ben Harris-Roxas a geo blogger
Geo Tag
<div class="geo"> <abbr class="latitude" title="47.566">N 47° 56.6</abbr> <abbr class="longitude" title="7.588">E 7° 58.8</abbr></div>
Used in Microformats: adr and hCard ...... hCalendar
Note to self: show Operator, Map Extension
KML
GMLGeography Markup Language
Keyhole Markup Language
Geoweb SearchAdd your GeoRSS or KML into the sitemap.xml
Ranking?
Determine location from text (when no coordinates are present)?
Photo by Dom Dada
Location-aware Tools Points > Polygon
That’s itGot it?
Slides on: keepthebyte.ch
Links on: del.icio.us/keepthebyte/geoweb
