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Imagine viewing a web page with a reference to a landing site on Mars - and being able to use an add-on to you browser to be taken directly to that site, in a 'Martian' mapping application of your choosing, or on a site like Google Mars. Or being able to search, easily, for web sites referring to the same site, without seeing places on Earth with co-incidentally similar coordinates. | Imagine viewing a web page with a reference to a landing site on Mars - and being able to use an add-on to you browser to be taken directly to that site, in a 'Martian' mapping application of your choosing, or on a site like Google Mars. Or being able to search, easily, for web sites referring to the same site, without seeing places on Earth with co-incidentally similar coordinates. | ||
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Here's some work-in-progress: | Here's some work-in-progress: | ||
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==See also== | ==See also== | ||
*[luna] - the same sort of thing, for The Moon | *[[luna]] - the same sort of thing, for The Moon | ||
Revision as of 00:36, 23 September 2006
Imagine viewing a web page with a reference to a landing site on Mars - and being able to use an add-on to you browser to be taken directly to that site, in a 'Martian' mapping application of your choosing, or on a site like Google Mars. Or being able to search, easily, for web sites referring to the same site, without seeing places on Earth with co-incidentally similar coordinates.
Those are just two of the things a "mars" microformat, based on the existing [geo] version, might do for you.
Here's some work-in-progress:
See also
- luna - the same sort of thing, for The Moon