place-brainstorming

<entry-title>place-brainstorming</entry-title>

This page is currently a premature (lack of process) brainstorming proposal for marking up named places.

At a minimum, per process there needs first to be:

• attempt to re-use existing microformats first
  • which should quickly reveal that hCard is likely sufficient for named places
• if not, documentation of real world places-examples and use-cases that require more than what hCard provides
• documentation of previous places-formats attempts

Summary: use hCard to markup named places. Document any real world use-cases and pages that require anything more in places-examples

- Tantek 09:59, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

place proposal 2012-03-30

Editor/Author

Flávio Oliveira

Copyright

Per the public domain release on Flávio Oliveira, this specification is released into the public domain.

Format

• hPlace (hplace). required.
  • name (place-name). required.
  • summary (summary). optional.
  • coord (summary). required, using geo.
  • address (address). optional, using adr.
  • type (type). optional, using rel-tag.
  • photo (photo).(permalink). optional.
  • url (url).(permalink). optional.
  • events (events).(permalink). optional, using hCalendar.

Field and Element Details

hPlace

• A place element is identified by the class name hplace.
• A place element should represent a geospatial place or area.
• A place element could have a multiple sub places using nested hplace elemens.

name

• A place name element is identified by the class name name.
• A place name element is required.

summary

• A place summary element is identified by the class name summary.
• A place summary is optional.

coord

• A place coord element is identified by the class name coord using geo.
• A place coord element is required.

address

• A place address element is identified by the class name address using adr.
• A place address element is optional.

type

• A place type element is identified by the class name type, using rel-tag.
• A place type element is optional.

photo

• A place photo element is identified by the class name photo.
• A place photo element is optional.

url

• A place url element is identified by the class name url.
• A place url element is optional.

events

• A place events element is identified by the class name events.
• A place events element is optional.

Examples

 <div class="hplace">
    <div class="name">Castle of Mourão</div>
    <div class="summary">Here goes the place / monument description</div>
    <div class="coord geo"> GPS:<span class="latitude">38.384917</span>, <span class="longitude"> -7.345863</span></div>
 </div>