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

Also:

• 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

see also

• advocacy
• hcard-advocacy
• adr-advocacy