geo-advocacy

geo advocacy

Part of the larger microformats advocacy effort. Adding "Geo" markup (inside hCard where appropriate) to these sites would improve their usability and ambient findability.

various

• WikiGPS
  • Under development; notified of Geo microformat 2007-03-23
• Collections of waypoints
  • See also geo-waypoint-examples
• Upcoming
  • Some events, e.g. Multipack February 2007 are tagged thus: geo:lat=52.4784, geo:lon=-1.9096. This could be rendered as a geo microformat. Andy Mabbett
  • Requested on (now defunct) Upcoming wiki 2007-01-14
  • Repeated on new suggestion board. 2007-03-30. Please vote for this suggestion Andy Mabbett
• U.S. Gazetteer e.g. [1]
• World Gazetteer e.g. [2]
  • Requested by e-mail, 2007-01-20 Andy Mabbett
• GENUKI Gazetteer (UK & Ireland) e.g. [3]
  • Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-20 Andy Mabbett
• The Degree Confluence Project
  • Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-26 Andy Mabbett
• WikiMapia
  • Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-27 Andy Mabbett
  • Replied to say they're looking into it. 2007-03-29
• Jeeep.com
  • Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-27 Andy Mabbett
  • Advertised address bouncing, 2007-03-27
• Flagr
  • Using, but not (yet) displaying, coordinates
  • Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-30; also suggested they display their coordinates, and mark them up as tags Andy Mabbett
  • Replied same day to say they will "talk it over internally"
• http://opencaching.de/
  • Requires German speaker
• GPS Visualizer
  • As well as publishing coordinates; produces maps and graphics from files of waypoints; could do thr same for pages with Geo.
  • Requested by e-mail, 2007-09-07 Andy Mabbett
• GlobalMotion
• Various Geocache listing sites

routes and tracks

• TerraWiki
• Featues, e.g. Mount Marcy
  • Requested on TerraWiki Community Portal 2007-10-02 Andy Mabbett

Sites which currently offer downloadable routes or tracks (as KML, GPX or similar files) could also offer a "view on-line" option, with the coordinates listed on a web page, marked-up with Geo (and hCard) microformats, which could then be parsed with whatever tool the user chooses.:

• TerraWiki
  • See above

successes

• Wikitravel
  • All articles on places, e.g. Wikitravel guide to Birmingham, England
  • See also Wikitravel:Microformats
  • achieved 2006-12-13, per [4] see, for example, Wikitravel guide to Birmingham, England Andy Mabbett
• POI66
  • Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-23 Andy Mabbett
  • over 58,500 waypoints geo-formatted, in under 4 hours from initial contact!
• Geograph British Isles
  • Requested by feedback form, 2007-03-26 Andy Mabbett
  • over 370,000 examples, within 30 minutes of request being submitted!
• AddressFix
  • Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-26 Andy Mabbett
  • valid postal addresses/ places converted, within one day of request being submitted.
• Wikipedia
  • Wikipedia-EN
    • Articles on places, e.g. Wikipedia - Great Barr (roll-out ongoing) 2007-03
      • Many broken; now using hidden metadata, 2007-09-03
    • All map link pages linked to from the same, e.g. maps for Wikipedia-EN article on Great Barr 2007-03
    • See also WikiProject Microformats
  • Wikipedia-DE
    • All map link pages e.g. maps for Wikipedia-DE article on Birmingham
  • Wikipedia-NL
    • All map link pages e.g. maps for Wikipedia-NL article on Birmingham
  • GIS-Wiki's "hjl_getCoor" now outputs Geo markup, from a Google Maps API.
• Great Circle Mapper ("GCM"; e.g. sample GCM trip, BHX on GCM)
  • Requested by e-mail, 2007-06-21 Andy Mabbett
  • Success! Confirmed in use, 2007-06-23
• Share My Routes (e.g. [5])
  • Requested by feedback form, 2007-09-04 Andy Mabbett
  • Success! Confirmed in use, 2008-02-05

rejections

• geocaching.com
  • Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-27 Andy Mabbett
  • "The true benefit of this appears to be allowing sharing between sites [this] is something that GC specifically guards against so would be a major detriment. And most importantly when discussing a site or piece of software that is running smoothly, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. There just does not seem to be a benefit to GC's current plans." 2007-04-02

see also

• advocacy
• hcard-advocacy
• adr-advocacy