hPlace

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Draft Specification 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

Simple Place Definition

 <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>
    <a href="[your url]" class="url">Find More here</a>
    <a href="[your url]" rel="tag">Monuments</div>
 </div>

Nested Place Definition

 <div class="hplace">
    <div class="name">Castle of Mourão</div>
    <div class="coord geo"> GPS:<span class="latitude">38.384917</span>, <span class="longitude"> -7.345863</span></div>
    <div class="hplace">
        <div class="name">Main entrance</div>
        <div class="coord geo"> GPS:
            <span class="latitude">38.384917</span>,
            <span class="longitude"> -7.345863</span>
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="hplace">
        <div class="name">Tower of Oliveirinha</div>
        <div class="coord geo"> GPS:
            <span class="latitude">38.384862</span>,
            <span class="longitude">-7.346662</span>
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="hplace">
        <div class="name">Castle Church entrance</div>
        <div class="coord geo"> GPS:
            <span class="latitude">38.384597</span>,
            <span class="longitude">-7.346469</span>
        </div>
    </div>    
 </div>

Simple Place Definition with events

 <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 class="events">
        <h3>Next available events</h3>
        <div class="vevent">
            <a href="[your url]" class="url uid summary">Bye bye summer 2012</a>
            <abbr class="dtstart" title="2012-08-30">August 30</abbr>
        </div>
        <div class="vevent">
            <a href="[your url]" class="url uid summary">Young week</a>
            <abbr class="dtstart" title="2012-08-25">August 30</abbr>
        </div>
        <div class="vevent">
            <a href="[your url]" class="url uid summary">Na. Sra. of Candeias</a>
            <abbr class="dtstart" title="2012-02-02">Feberuary 2nd</abbr>
        </div>
    </div>
 </div>