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<entry-title>hReview Examples in the wild </entry-title>
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This page is an '''informative''' section of the [[hreview|hReview]] specification.

The following sites have published [[hreview|hReviews]], and thus are a great place to start for anyone looking for examples "in the wild" to try parsing, indexing, organizing etc.

If you publish hReviews on your own site, feel free to add it to the '''top''' of this list. Please be sure to include at least one URL to a page on your site that includes actual [[hreview|hReview]] markup. Examples added without a URL to a page with hReview markup may be removed.

Want to get started with writing an [[hreview|hReview]]? Use the [http://microformats.org/code/hreview/creator hReview creator] to write a review and publish it on your blog or site.

== New Examples ==
* [http://bordeaux.pikadom.fr/ Immobilier Bordeaux] Pikadom Bordeaux is a real estate search engine that use hReview in it's [http://bordeaux.pikadom.fr/top-annonces/ top annonces] section to review an funny or incredible ads.
* [http://www.meytavti.co.il/ In Prespective eye] Aviran`s new (Hebrew) review website based on hReview.
* [http://www.iconfinance.co.uk/bridging-finance/ Icon Finance] is a bridging finance broker that have used hReview to allow clients and brokers to review their products and customer service.[http://www.iconfinance.co.uk/bridging-finance/ Example]
* [http://teethsuccess.com TeethSuccess.com Teeth Whitening] is a teeth whitening kit distributor that uses hReview to provide product testimonials. Example here: [http://teethsuccess.com/testimonials TeethSuccess Teeth Whitening]
* [http://www.keepitgreenmaids.com Houston Maid Service] is a Houston cleaning service website that uses hReview for their client feedback. Example here: [http://www.keepitgreenmaids.com/feedback.html Houston Cleaners]
* [http://www.hardcoreepoxyflooringdetroit.com Hardcore Epoxy] is a epoxy flooring and foundation website that uses hReview on its footer that is site wide. View here for example [http://www.hardcoreepoxyflooringdetroit.com/concrete-crack-repair-detroit-mi.html Foundation Repair Detroit]
* [https://www.yourlastingpowerofattorney.co.uk Lasting Power of Attorney] is a legal service website that uses hReview on its testimonial with a site wide aggregation [https://www.yourlastingpowerofattorney.co.uk/lasting-power-of-attorney/lasting-power-of-attorney-guidance/ Lasting Power of Attorney Guidance]
* [http://www.black-jack.net Blackjack] is a blackjack website that uses hReview on casino reviews and games like [http://www.black-jack.net/casinos/club-usa-casino.html Club USA Casino]
* [http://www.cravingtech.com/ Cravingtech] is a blog that uses hReview on some posts like [http://www.cravingtech.com/sennheiser-pc-333d-gaming-headset-review.html 7.1 gaming headset from Sennheiser – the PC 333D]
* [http://www.appwereld.nl AppWereld.nl] uses hReview for mobile application reviews. Example: [http://www.appwereld.nl/reviews/toy-shot-review-481164990/ Toy Shot Review].
* [http://www.thejokes.net TheJokes.Network] uses hReview for the user reviews of products and services e.g. [http://thejokes.net/review.php?rid=3 Riptastic Review].
* [http://www.golfmadesimpleinscotland.com Golf Made Simple In Scotland] uses hReview for golf tour testimonials written by clients. Example: [http://www.golfmadesimpleinscotland.com/testimonials/ Golf tour testimonials].
** All the 'rating' and 'item vcard' elements are set to style="display:none" unfortunately. - [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 17:35, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
* [http://www.delucaplasticsurgery.com DeLuca Plastic Surgery] in Albany, NY uses hReview for testimonials & reviews written by patients of Dr. William DeLuca. Example: [http://www.delucaplasticsurgery.com/reviews/ Tummy Tuck & Liposuction Reviews].

* [http://www.airbourneairconditioning.com/ AC Repair Houston] is a air conditioning website that uses hReview on its ac repair page to see example visit [http://www.airbourneairconditioning.com/houston-ac-repair.html AC Repair Houston TX]
* [http://www.getlocalmaps.com/ Get Local] is a google map marketing and local seo company that uses hReview on its hompage. To see example visit [http://www.getlocalmaps.com/ Google Map Marketing]
* [http://www.how2centos.com/centos-6-tutorials/ CentOS 6 Tutorials] uses hReview for testimonials of its CentOS tutorials. Example: [http://www.how2centos.com/centos-6-tutorials/ CentOS 6] Reviews.
* [http://www.cabs.co.za/ CABS Car hire South Africa] uses hReview for customer submitted testimonials of its website. [http://www.cabs.co.za/customer-testimonials.html/ Customer testimonial].
* [http://www.gutscheincodez.com/ GutscheincodeZ.com] uses hReview to allow users to rate different online coupons. Example: [http://www.gutscheincodez.com/otto/ View Example].
* [http://www.teethwhiteningreviews.com/ Teeth Whitening Reviews] uses hReview for consumer submitted reviews. [http://www.teethwhiteningreviews.com/item.php?id=91 View Example].
* [http://waterfiltersystem.co/ Water Filter Systems] uses hReview for customer submitted reviews of its water filter systems. [http://waterfiltersystem.co/water-ionizer-7plate-systems/ Review Example].
* [http://www.tomsgutscheine.de/ Tom's Gutscheine]. A German coupon and voucher site. User reviews are marked up with hReview. Example: [http://www.tomsgutscheine.de/zalando-gutschein Zalando Gutschein].
* [http://www.elevatelocal.co.uk/ Elevatelocal]. Internet marketing company uses hReview for publishing client testimonials on their corporate website.
* [http://www.MyMovingReviews.com/ My Moving Reviews]. Moving companies reviews and ratings website - company profile pages and reviews. Uses hReview and hReview-aggregate for publishing reviews and 5 star ratings in the reviews pages. [http://www.mymovingreviews.com/movingreviews/movers-were-fast-39 Moving Review Example].
* [http://www.trendspots.de News Magazine] The Startpage was realised with hreview. Short informations as a Review.
* [http://www.shockingexperts.com/ Shocking Experts Review]. News, Products And Service Review Site. Uses hReview and hReview-aggregate for publishing reviews and ratings of data in specific review page. [http://www.shockingexperts.com/forex-robots/forex-megadroid-review.html Review Example].
* [http://www.pestek.co.uk/ Pestek Pest Control]. Service reviews from a pest control company. [http://www.pestek.co.uk/alwoodley.html Review Example].
* [http://www.assistenza-clienti.it/ Assistenza Clienti]. Customer Services reviews. HReview made easy with Wordpress. [http://www.assistenza-clienti.it/telecom-italia Review Example].
* [http://www.glamquotes.com/ Celebrity Quotes] uses hReview for reviews of quotes. [http://www.glamquotes.com/celebrity/lady-gaga-quotes/ View Example].
* [http://www.ohsohandy.com/ OhSoHandy.com]. Local restaurant, movie theaters, and restaurant reviews site using microformats since 2009 [http://raleigh.ohsohandy.com/review/192-the-raleigh-times-bar Sample Restaurant Review].
* [http://www.yetanotherreviewsite.co.uk/ Yet Another Review Site]. Games review site that has just started to include hReview microformat in its reviews [http://www.yetanotherreviewsite.co.uk/dead-rising-2-reviews~925~360,PS3.htm Example Review].

* [http://wordpresspartner.com/plugins-2/metaweb-topicblocks-plugin-review/ WordPress Partner] reviews WordPress CMS Themes and Plugins with hReview.
* [http://www.gulfdine.com GulfDine] uses hReview for user and editorial reviews of restaurants.
* [http://www.granitecountertopsdetroit.org/ Kitchen Countertops Detroit] uses hReview for the granite counter tops website towards the bottom. e.g. [http://www.granitecountertopsdetroit.org/ granite countertops Detroit MI].
* [http://www.getdebit.com GetDebit] uses hReview to publish reviews of prepaid debit cards. [http://www.getdebit.com/prepaid-debit-card/netspend-mastercard-prepaid-card/ NetSpend MasterCard Review Example].
* [http://www.myrating.dk myrating.dk] uses hReview and hReview-aggregate for publishing reviews and ratings of data in different categories like movies, candy etc. [http://www.myrating.dk/indhold/1141-the_big_lebowski example].
* [http://www.scotlandhotelreviews.co.uk/ Scotland Hotel Reviews] and [http://www.glasgowhotelreviews.co.uk/ Glasgow Hotel Reviews] use hReview to markup their hotel reviews. Examples: [http://www.scotlandhotelreviews.co.uk/ayrshire-and-arran/isle-of-arran/brodick/ormidale-hotel/ Brodick Hotel Reviews] and [http://www.glasgowhotelreviews.co.uk/glasgow-city-centre/radisson-sas-hotel-glasgow/ Glasgow Hotel Reviews]
* [http://www.carinsurance4you.co.za CarInsurance4You] uses hReviews for car insurance company reviews. Examples: [http://www.carinsurance4you.co.za/dial-direct-car-insurance.asp Dial Direct Car Insurance] and [http://www.carinsurance4you.co.za/budget-insurance-car-insurance.asp Budget Insurance].
* [http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/north-america/united-states/new-york/new-york-city/1002207982790/al-di-la/restaurant-detail.html The New York Times] uses hReview for all its Venue pages under the [http://travel.nytimes.com/ Travel] section, which cover Restaurant, Hotels, Shopping, Nightlife and Attractions. There are approximately 20,000 geo-coded venue pages. Example: [http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/north-america/united-states/new-york/new-york-city/1002207982790/al-di-la/restaurant-detail.html New York City Restaurants: Al Di La].
** Problems noted by [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 01:27, 6 January 2010 (UTC) via heads-up from Michael Kaply.
*** The hReview is of a venue and thus must use a nested hCard item for the review per [[hreview#Property_details|hReview property details: item]]. There are a few problems with the current markup.
*** current code:<code><div id="topHotel" class="hreview vcard"></code> - this div should just have <code>class="hreview"</code>, the "vcard" class name should be on the element with the "item" class name.
*** There needs to be an element (like a div) inside the hReview but surrounding all the venue info that has <code>class="item vcard"</code>.
*** current code: <code><h5 class="timesPick item fn org"></code> - this h5 should just have <code>class="timesPick fn org"</code> with the "item" class name going on a surrounding element (as suggested above).
* [http://www.cafebritt.com Café Britt] uses hReviews for product reviews. Also uses hProduct, hListing and rel=tag. Examples: [http://www.cafebritt.com/costa-rica-dark-roast Costa Rica Dark Roast] and [http://www.cafebritt.com/costa-rica-coffees Costa Rica Coffees].
* [http://www.flightline.co.uk Flightline] uses hReviews for our customers hotel reviews as seen on the hotel accommodation landing pages (click 'Read all reviews'). For examples see [http://www.flightline.co.uk/accommodation/hotel-search.php?hotel=20080730132603302392&supplier=Medhotels Forte Do Vale 4* in Portugal, Algarve, Albufeira], [http://www.flightline.co.uk/accommodation/hotel-search.php?hotel=11152&supplier=holidaybrokers Laguna Park II 3* in Spain, Tenerife, Playa de las Americas], [http://www.flightline.co.uk/accommodation/hotel-search.php?hotel=11135&supplier=HolidayBrokers Santa Maria Aparthotel 3* in Canary Islands, Tenerife, Costa Adeje] and [http://www.flightline.co.uk/accommodation/hotel-search.php?hotel=20081009130037970855&supplier=Medhotels Sunset Bay Club 3* in Canary Islands, Tenerife, Costa Adeje].
* [http://www.roofingandsidingdetroit.com/ Detroit Roofing] uses hReview for the Livonia MI Roofing Page. View Example here [http://www.roofingandsidingdetroit.com/roofing-livonia-mi.html Roofing Livonia MI].
* [http://www.zappos.com Zappos.com] uses hReviews on product reviews seen on product/lifestyle style landing pages and brand pages. For examples see [http://www.zappos.com/shoes Shoes], [http://www.zappos.com/clothing Clothing], [http://www.zappos.com/bags Bags & Handbags], and [http://www.zappos.com/nike Nike].
* [http://www.iphonespeakerreviews.com/ iPhone Speaker Reviews] is built with Joomla and jReviews and has both editor and user reviews. Currently the editor reviews are published using hReview. Example: [http://www.iphonespeakerreviews.com/bose/bose-sounddock-series-ii-iphone-speaker-review.html Bose SoundDock Series II Review].
* [http://abyrvalg.com/ Abyrvalg] is a russian city community. Users submit reviews of local businesses. Reviews are published using hReview and hCard markup. Example: [http://kiev.abyrvalg.com/biz/sunduk reviews of Sunduk pub in Kiev].
* [http://www.bankfox.com/ BankFox] is a search engine for banks. It has user-submitted reviews of bank accounts, marked up with hReview. For example, here's a page of [http://www.bankfox.com/account/online-savings/ally-bank/reviews/ reviews of Ally Bank].
* [http://whichtwitterapp.com/ WhichTwitterApp] provides [http://whichtwitterapp.com/reviews/adobe-air/tweetdeck-desktop reviews of twitter clients] using hReview, hCard, rel-tag and rel-home.
* [http://musicremedy.com/ MusicRemedy.com], a music site, publishes all song-reviews in hReview format, see [http://musicremedy.com/m/Madonna/videos/Miles_Away-22498.html example].
* Italian free business directory [http://www.cylex.it/ cylex.it] marked up with hReview all user submitted reviews of companies and products. Example: [http://www.cylex.it/azienda/mondial-security-10559327.html company profile with review].
* [http://vaatekaupat.com/ Vaatekaupat.com] uses hReview for reviews of clothing retailers. Example: [http://vaatekaupat.com/kaupat/gina-tricot Gina Tricot].
* [http://www.sustainlane.com/ SustainLane] uses hreview for user reviews of local green businesses and green products ([http://www.sustainlane.com/reviews/b-restaurant-bar/YSNIVHY298U2SBV7AWNUJ1VWYWOR example]). Also rel-tag, hcard, vcard, and many more coming.
* [http://www.momentville.com/ MomentVille] uses hReview markup for wedding vendor reviews. Example: [http://vendors.momentville.com/vendors/elizabeth_morgan_photography/reviews Reviews of Hawaii Wedding Photographer].
* [http://inkweaver-review.blogspot.com Inkweaver Review] uses a modified Blogger XML template to automatically generate hReview markup for its reviews of young adult books. Example: [http://inkweaver-review.blogspot.com/2009/05/toby-alone-by-timothee-de-fombelle.html Review of Toby Alone by Timothee de Fombelle].
* [http://www.springest.nl Springest] uses hReview for it's user reviews of trainings. Example: [http://www.springest.nl/tijdwinst/ Trainingreviews] .
* [http://aplawrence.com APLawrence.com] has started using hReview for its [http://aplawrence.com/cgi-bin/indexget.pl?Reviews reviews]
* [http://www.commonsensemedia.org Common Sense Media] now uses hReview for its parent-focused [http://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews movie reviews]. hReview for other media types (books, music, websites) is forthcoming.
* [https://www.brownbook.net Brownbook.net] The global free business directory that anyone can edit uses hReviews for customer submitted reviews on all its business listings. Example [http://www.brownbook.net/business/30991528/celebrity-lipstick Temecula Lipstick], or check out any of the reviews on the home page.
* [https://www.dutchbulbs.com/store/holidaygifts/16420 DutchBulbs.com] uses hReview for customer submitted reviews of its bulbs and perennials.
* [http://www.cleanertoday.com/Roof-Shingle-Cleaner-Reviews-s/116.htm CleanerToday] has implemented hReview linked to an hCard for reviews on product pages. (for example see [http://www.cleanertoday.com/Indian-Meal-Moth-Traps-p/trap-birdseed.htm Moth Trap Reviews].
* [http://www.MaxiMovieBlog.com] uses hReview, rel-nofollow and rel-tag microformats for reviews of movies and home-theater electronics
* [http://www.oasisroofinginc.com/ Seattle Roofing] uses hReview at the bottom of the roofing site. e.g. [http://www.oasisroofinginc.com/siding/stucco-siding-seattle stucco siding seattle].
* [http://newyork.brokerbeagle.com BrokerBeagle] uses hReview linked to an hCard via the include-pattern to mark up reviews of New York apartment brokers, see [http://newyork.brokerbeagle.com/broker-302-harris_philip.html example].
* [http://anime.mikomi.org anime.mikomi.org] uses hReview to mark up all of its user reviews of anime series, see [http://anime.mikomi.org/series/292.html example].
* [http://www.ecovian.com Ecovian] uses hReview to mark up user reviews of environmentally friendly businesses, see [http://www.ecovian.com/l/san-francisco-ca/millennium-restaurant example]
* Russian site [http://hotelmate.ru/ Hotel Mate] uses hReview for user submitted hotel reviews.
* Swedish music site [http://dagensskiva.com/ dagensskiva.com] publishes all reviews in hReview format.
* [http://microrevie.ws MicroReviews] - takes Twitter posts and marks them up with [[hReview]]. The markup is descibed on the [http://microrevie.ws/technical technical page].
* [http://www.scubafreebies.com ScubaFreebies.com] - reviews websites for SCUBA divers in hReview format. For example [http://www.scubafreebies.com/review/theaquaplanet review of video site theAquaPlanet]
* [http://www.hypercasinos.com Hypercasinos.com] - offers reviews of online casinos in hReview format. For example [http://www.hypercasinos.com/content/view/27/1/ a Bodog Casino review]
* [http://www.allogarage.fr/ Allogarage] - compare 13 000 motor mechanics in France- all reviews are in hReview format.
* [http://www.lopico.com Lopico - social business directory] - local business reviews in hReview
* [http://www.rolandinsh.lv/blog Rolands Umbrovskis - Blog] marked up with hReview all blog posts, using very basic requirements (hReview -> rating), for readers rating of any post/page.
* [http://www.concertbuzz.net ConcertBuzz- Concert Reviews] uses hReview for all user submitted concert reviews. See an [http://www.concertbuzz.net/genres/classic-rock/jethro-tull.html individual review page].
* [http://www.trouvea.fr/ Trouvea.fr] - Compares thousands of firms in the House Services' sector everywhere in France - all reviews are in hReview format.
* [http://www.trouvannonces.fr/ Trouvannonces.fr] - propose des services aux particuliers comme aux professionnels sur la gratuité simple des petites annonces en ligne.
* All the [http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/review/ West Midland Bird Club's reviews], e.g. [http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/review/countrymans-bedside-book.htm Countryman's Bedside Book]
* [http://www.novedge.com/ Novedge], the largest online CAD/CAM/DCC store, uses hReview for all product reviews (currently about 2000 reviews). See [http://www.novedge.com/review/1978/ single review page] and [http://www.novedge.com/Robert-McNeel/Rhino-4-0/products/2217/tab/3 multiple reviews page]. Each hReview is also visually marked with the hReview button: http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/hreview.png
* [http://club.coneco.net/ Coneco Club] (in Japanese) uses hReview for all product reviews. See [http://club.coneco.net/user/4/review/4178/index.htm example]
* [http://lanetro.com/ lanetro.com], lead city and entertainment guide in the Spanish market with users's reviews about places, restaurants, movies, theaters, shops... Uses hReview (see [http://madrid.lanetro.com/restaurantes-indios/mumbai-massala-282573 example]), hCards and events ([http://teatro.lanetro.com/homo-ridens-20473072 example]) on its detail pages.
* [http://11870.com/pro/11870 11870.com] a social network (real life del.icio.us) which implements hReview for user's reviews about places, services and business
* [http://www.mises.org/periodical.aspx?Id=2 The Mises Review], an academic journal, uses hReview for their book reviews. See [http://www.mises.org/misesreview_detail.aspx?control=317 example]
* [http://www.golfdigest.com/ Golf Digest] uses hReview on its [http://www.golfdigest.com/courses/places Course Finder] detail pages to publish user comments, ratings and geo. [http://www.golfdigest.com/courses/places/2483 example]
* [http://www.ramkol.co.il/ Ramkol] (in Hebrew) Advanced social networking based local reviews in Israel
* [http://www.popsyndicate.com/ PopSyndicate] is a groups review site for comic books, movies, dvds, music, and book using hReview and hCard.
* [http://www.mitkbh.dk/ MitKBH] (in danish) uses hReview to publish reviews of shops, clubs, bars, cafées, take-aways and restaurants in Copenhagen, Denmark. Each reviewed place has also a geo incl.[http://www.mitkbh.dk/node.php?node=238 example]
* [http://www.readandtravel.info Read&Travel] includes meta-information using hReview for travel-book reviews.
* [http://www.mangospot.dk/ Mangospot] uses hReview to publish reviews of bars, cafées and restaurants [http://mangospot.dk/Steder/245/Klassisk65-BistroVinbar.aspx example]
* [http://www.sean-johnson.com/ Sean Johnson] has started using hReview for [http://www.sean-johnson.com/2007/05/04/everyman-by-philip-roth/ book] and [http://www.sean-johnson.com/2007/05/01/feist-the-reminder/ music] reviews.
* [http://www.loudervoice.com/ LouderVoice] publishes and aggregates hReviews to/from blogs. All [http://www.loudervoice.com/search?q=hotel+cork Search/Tag Results] are also marked up with hReview.
* [http://www.bayofislands.net/ Bay of Islands] uses hReview eg. for reviews of [http://www.bayofislands.net/accommodation/apartments/edgewater-palms-apartments/#reviews Edgewater Palms]
* [http://spotspotting.com/ SpotSpotting], a site where TV commercials are reviewed and marked up with hReview (in Spanish)
* [[User:AndrewKuchling]] has added hReview to his book diary and would like to know if the markup is correct; [http://www.amk.ca/books/h/Velocity_of_Honey example 1], [http://www.amk.ca/books/h/Star_Wars_On_Trial example 2])
* [http://www.revish.com/ Revish], a book review community, uses hReview for all reviews on the site.
* [[User:EdwardOConnor]] has published several hReviews on his blog ([http://edward.oconnor.cx/2006/08/cask-room 1], [http://edward.oconnor.cx/2006/10/lud-in-the-mist 2], [http://edward.oconnor.cx/2006/11/hoboken 3], [http://edward.oconnor.cx/2006/11/basic 4], [http://edward.oconnor.cx/2006/11/legitimacy 5], [http://edward.oconnor.cx/2006/11/pizza-port 6], [http://edward.oconnor.cx/2006/12/lady-dottie-and-the-diamonds 7]).
* [http://ficlets.com/stories/12 Ficlets] story page uses hReview for user comments.
* Birder's Library, e.g. [http://www.birderslibrary.com/reviews/dvd/audubon_video_guide.htm Audubon VideoGuide to 505 Birds of North America]
* [http://www.raveaboutit.com.au Rave About It] uses hReviews for all local business reviews. In addition it uses the hCard format for a business's contact details.
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*[[User:RobCrowther]] has a number of hReviews on his blog, for example [http://www.boogdesign.com/b2evo/index.php/a/2007/02/09/webdd07_unobtrusive_javascript_with_rail this is one of a sequence of reviews of talks at WebDD07], and a [http://www.boogdesign.com/b2evo/index.php/a/2007/02/28/wsg_london_accessibility_meetup single post with three reviews].
*[http://www.volume.co.uk/main/clients/clients.aspx Volume] publishes client reviews/quotes as hReviews.
* [http://revyu.com/ Revyu] allows people to review, rate, and tag anything. Individual reviews ([http://revyu.com/reviews/0b03069358e6c718167e09119f7709dc50fb3f6e/about/html example]) are marked up using hReview.
*[http://www.globaldm.co.uk/our-clients.html GlobalDM] publishes client reviews/quotes as hReviews.
* [http://www.dishola.com/dishes/index/Austin,%20TX Dishola] publishes user reviews and ratings of dishes at restaurants, as opposed to entire "restaurant" reviews.
* [http://musicknows.com/1998/10/22/the-science-lesson MusicKnows] publishes user reviews and memories of gigs using hReview.
** hReview does not have an item
* [http://thetenwordreview.com The Ten Word Review] simply contains ten word long reviews. All reviews are marked up as hReviews, and user information is marked up as hCards.
* [http://www.halogenguides.com Halogen Guides] is an independent network of websites for wealthy consumers. Member-created reviews for [http://realestate.halogenguides.com/company/exclusive-resorts/reviews destination clubs], private jets and fractional real estate are published with hReview.
* [http://www.board-crazy.co.uk Board Crazy Skateboarding] uses hReviews for all [http://www.board-crazy.co.uk/skate-reviews.php skateboarding product reviews].
** hReviews include the rating inside of the description - 12/11/2006
* [http://local.yahoo.com Yahoo Local] now supports hReviews for all the user feedback and ratings about places in their search results
*[http://corkd.com/ Cork'd] is a community site for reviewing and sharing wine. Member-created "Tasting Notes" are published using hReview.
*[[User:ChrisCasciano]] has started using hReview in his blog postings including these reviews of [http://chunkysoup.net/article/211/TechnoratisNewToys Pingerati and Technorati Microformat Search].
*[http://www.judysbook.com/ Judy's Book] is a local reviews community. Athe hCard format.
*[http://www.judysbook.com/ Judy's Book] is a local reviews community. All reviews are published in hReview format, and all business listings and members (review authors) in the hCard format.
* [http://tech.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Tech] has launched with hReview markup on all their reviews! Hat tips: [http://nerddawg.blogspot.com/2006/05/hreview-microformat-on-yahoo-tech.html Ashish Shetty] and [http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/006729.html Jeremy Zawodny] both via [http://www.moskalyuk.com/blog/yahoo-tech-tip-of-the-day/1058 Alex Moskalyuk]. [http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/006729.html#comment-27779 Alex says]: "when we launched, the press reported on 300,000 tech products in our database. Some popular items, like [http://tech.yahoo.com/pr/apple-ipod-video-30gb-black-mp3-player/1992981873 this Apple iPod], have over 200 reviews."
* [http://3spots.blogspot.com/2006/05/social-bookmarking-smarking.html 3spots: Social + bookMARKING = Smarking] has an hReview of
[http://smarking.com/ Smarking.com] (a social bookmarking service) which marks up their tagged links with [[xfolk|xFolk]].
** hReviews have invalid item/fn markup (fn not a child of item) - 12/11/2006
*[http://www.pacificspirit.com Dave Orchard] provides hreview marked [http://www.pacificspirit.com/Restaurants-Vancouver.html Vancouver Restaurant reviews]
** hReviews have invalid item/fn markup (fn not a child of item) - 12/11/2006
*[http://3spots.blogspot.com/2006/04/what-is-wikio-definitely-web-20-but.html hReview of Wikio]
** hReviews have invalid item/fn markup (fn not a child of item) - 12/11/2006
*[http://jg.typepad.com/ciel/ Joan] has published [http://jg.typepad.com/ciel/2006/02/daniel_bouluds_.html an hReview of Garçon]
** hReviews include the rating inside of the description - 12/11/2006
*[http://zipingo.typepad.com/ Zipingo Team Blog], a collaborative blog by the Zipingo Product Development Team at Intuit, used the hReview format to tag [http://zipingo.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/12/finding_an_elec.html the backstory] of a review on a San Mateo electrician, written by one of the Zipingo team members ZipingoJim. Jim's post also links to his review on [http://www.zipingo.com Zipingo], a consumer opinion site.
** hReview does not have an item
** hReviews have invalid item/fn markup (fn not a child of item) - 12/11/2006
* [http://www.debaser.it/ DeBaser.it] publishes music reviews (in Italian) supporting hReview.
* [http://www.applianceman-repair-fortbend.com/appliance-repair-katy-tx.html Appliance Repair Katy] is a appliance repair website that uses hReview on its services pages like this example [http://www.applianceman-repair-fortbend.com/refrigerator-repair.html Refrigerator Repair Sugar Land TX]
* [http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/ Peter Westwood] posted an [http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2006/01/05/the-fox-inn/ hReview of The Fox Inn]
** hReviews include the rating inside of the description - 12/11/2006
* [http://www.livejournal.com/users/danieljohn/ Daniel John] provides a [http://www.livejournal.com/users/danieljohn/58674.html scathing hReview of CIBC].
** hReview does not have an item
* [http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/movie-reviews/ Yahoo UK Movie Reviews] now supports hReview on all (>2000) reviews, e.g. [http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/h/Harry-Potter-and-the-Goblet-of-Fire/review-41195.html Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Review]
** hReviews have invalid item/fn markup (fn not a child of item) - 12/11/2006
* [http://adam.typepad.com/impossiblethings/ Adam Hertz] wrote hReviews of [http://adam.typepad.com/impossiblethings/2005/11/soluna.html Soluna] and [http://adam.typepad.com/impossiblethings/2006/05/cafe_gibraltar.html Cafe Gibraltar]
** hReviews include the rating inside of the description - 12/11/2006
* [http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/ Matt McAllister] wrote an [http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/_archives/2005/11/16/1408893.html hReview of the TV show: "The Office"]
** hReviews have invalid item/fn markup (fn not a child of item) - 12/11/2006
** hReviews include the rating inside of the description - 12/11/2006
* [http://www.bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/ Boris Mann] wrote an [http://www.bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/doubletake-best-panorama-stitch-tool-for-mac-os-x hReview of DoubleTake, a panorama stitch tool for Mac OS X]
** hReview does not have an item
* [http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/ Peter Westwood] has written an [http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2005/10/03/blubeckers-hampton-court/ hReview of Blubeckers Hampton Court] and an [http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2006/01/05/the-fox-inn/ hReview of The Fox Inn Bucks Green, West Sussex]
** hReviews include the rating inside of the description - 12/11/2006
* [http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/ Dougal] has published an [http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/08/03/french-vanilla-latte hReview of Wolfgang Puck’s Gourmet French Vanilla Latte].
** hReviews have invalid item/fn markup (fn not a child of item) - 12/11/2006
** hReviews include the rating inside of the description - 12/11/2006
* [http://www.dinnerbuzz.com/ Dinnerbuzz] is a great site for posting tagged reviews of restaurants, and they publish and summarize all their reviews in hReview!
* [http://soldierant.net/ Bryce Glass (Soldier Ant)] posted an [http://soldierant.net/archives/2005/06/product_review.html hReview of the Uniden ELBT 595 Bluetooth Cordless Phone].
** hReviews have invalid item/fn markup (fn not a child of item) - 12/11/2006
** hReviews include the rating inside of the description - 12/11/2006
* dda posted an [http://sungnyemun.org/wordpress/?p=20 hReview of hReview] :)
** hReviews have invalid item/fn markup (fn not a child of item) - 12/11/2006
* An [http://tbp.xomerang.com/?p=3 hReview of Caffè Camardo coffee].
** No hreview on page even though the page claims to be an hreview
* [http://loadaveragezero.com/hnav/contact.php Douglas Clifton] posted [http://loadaveragezero.com/#May-12-2005 comments] regarding adapting his list of ~800 [http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx Developer Resources] as a format for evaluating hReview.
* [http://www.oliverbrown.me.uk/ Oliver Brown] [http://www.oliverbrown.me.uk/2005/05/09/sitereviewsorg-supports-hreview-i-think/ has announced] that his [http://en-us.sitereviews.org/ SiteReviews.org] (which reviews websites) publishes its reviews using hReview, e.g. here is the [http://en-us.sitereviews.org/review-photomatt.net review on SiteReviews.org for photomatt.net].
* [http://www.air-bourne.com/ Houston Air Conditioning] is a air conditioning repair website that uses hReview on the bottom of the Houston service page [http://www.air-bourne.com/air-conditioning.html Air Conditioning Houston TX]
* [http://www.myelin.co.nz/post/ Phillip Pearson] is publishing hReviews in the [http://coffee.gen.nz/rss/reviews RSS feed of cafe reviews] on his [http://coffee.gen.nz/ kiwi coffee review site], which of course has the reviews in HTML with embedded hReview markup as well.
** hReviews have invalid item/fn markup (fn not a child of item) - 12/11/2006
* [http://station11.net/ticker/ Kjell] is publishing his link blog as a [http://station11.net/ticker/ list of hReviews].
** hReviews have no fn specified on the item - 12/11/2006
* [http://epeus.blogspot.com/ Kevin Marks] has [http://epeus.blogspot.com/2005_04_01_epeus_archive.html#111484565269684374 published two hReviews] and used unicode "star" characters for his ratings!
** hReviews have invalid item/fn markup (fn not a child of item) - 12/11/2006
* JamesStewart is publishing hReviews in the location pages at his [http://grwifi.net Grand Rapids WiFi site].
* [http://www.happenchance.co.uk/ Paul Livingstone] uses hreview to voice his opinion on [http://happenchance.co.uk/reading/ books] and [http://happenchance.co.uk/listening/ music].
** hReviews have invalid item/fn markup (fn not a child of item) - 12/11/2006
* [http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk/ Andy Clarke] uses hReview for his [http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk/general/recommended-reading.html recommended reading list].
** hReviews have no fn specified on the item - 12/11/2006
* [http://nachlin.com/ Jim Nachlin] has added hReview publishing to the CMS he uses to publish [http://daysofleisure.com/writing his blog].
** hReviews have invalid item/fn markup (fn not a child of item) - 12/11/2006
* [http://whumpdotcom.livejournal.com/236856.html Bill Humphries] has reviewed the book "A Brother's Price" on his LiveJournal.
** hReviews have invalid item/fn markup (fn not a child of item) - 12/11/2006
* [http://www.thinkvitamin.com/ Vitamin] uses hReview on it's [http://www.thinkvitamin.com/reviews/ reviews] section (e.g. a [http://www.thinkvitamin.com/reviews/webapps/fluxiom/ review of Fluxiom]).
* [http://www.openguides.org/ OpenGuides] has support for the hReview microformat, and you can see it in action on [http://cotswolds.openguides.org/wiki/The_Plough,_Finstock this Cotswolds OpenGuide Review].
** hReview does not have an item
* [http://paulgoscicki.com Paul Goscicki] is publishing his [http://paulgoscicki.com/#wp_movie_ratings movie ratings] using hReview.
* [http://www.cellphones.ca/ Cell Phones etc.] is using hReviews for user-contributed [http://www.cellphones.ca/cell-phones/reviews/ cell phone reviews].
* [http://www.liptrot.org Adam Liptrot] publishes movie reviews using hReview and hCard. See article at [http://www.liptrot.org/journal/entries/movies_and_microformats/ Movies and Microformats].
* [http://www.webteacher.ws Web Teacher] is using hReview for book reviews in both the hReview creator format and a modified format. See a modified example at [http://www.webteacher.ws/2006/11/review-web-design-complete.html Web Design: A Complete Introduction].
** hReviews include the rating inside of the description - 12/11/2006
* [http://niftylist.co.uk/ The nifty list UK.] is using hReviews for user-contributed [http://niftylist.co.uk/mobiles/ mobile phone reviews].
** hReview does not have an item
* [http://sergiosantos.info/2007/3/books SergioSantos.info] uses hReviews for the reviewed book collection.
* [http://www.dcs-media.com/ DCS Media] converted all of their Firefox extension Reviews into hReview format. See the [http://www.dcs-media.com/fireday/default.aspx Fireday] page for extension listings.
* [http://bit.ly/iiag Is It Any Good . biz]has added hReview to all of their product reviews. See this example review of [http://bit.ly/2A3nVk Leapster2 Learning System ].

== Examples with some problems ==
If you find a problem with any example in any other section, please move it here, and note the precise problem and cite the section of the [[hreview|hReview spec]] that appears to be violated. If the example that was moved here is yours, and you want to improve it, see the [[hreview-faq|hReview FAQ]], or raise any queries on [[hreview-issues|hReview issues]] or [[mailing-lists#microformats-discuss|the mailing list]], where people will be happy to help you.

* [http://apple.com/store Apple Store] customer reviews are marked up in hReview, as in [http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wa/RSLID?mco=E1BD7358&fnode=home/shop_mac/mac_accessories/airport_wireless&nplm=MB053LL/A#review-RTD4T4KYJYYF9UC44 this review] of the Airport Extreme Base Station.
**'''sub-optimal''': Model numbers (?) marked up as URLs, e.g. <code><nowiki><SPAN class="url">MB053LL/A</SPAN></nowiki></code>
*loadaveragezero.com e.g. [http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Data_Formats/Metadata/XMDP]
**'''invalid''': no fn (site owner informed)
* ...

== Reviewed Examples ==
If you have reviewed a New Example (and you are not the author of the example) and believe it to be valid, go ahead and move it here.
* ...

==Related pages==
{{hreview-related-pages}}

geo

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<entry-title>Geo</entry-title>
{{Template:DraftSpecification}}

'''geo''' (pronounced "gee-oh") is a simple format for marking up [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGS84 WGS84] geographic coordinates (latitude; longitude), suitable for embedding in HTML or XHTML, Atom, RSS, and arbitrary XML. '''geo''' is a 1:1 representation of the "geo" property in the vCard standard ([http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2426.txt RFC2426]) in HTML, one of several open [[microformats|microformat]] standards.

== Draft Specification ==

;Editor/Author
: [http://tantek.com/ Tantek Çelik] ([http://technorati.com Technorati, Inc.])

=== Copyright ===
Per the public domain release on [[User:Tantek|my user page]], this specification is released into the public domain.

{{MicroFormatPublicDomainContributionStatement}}

=== Patents ===
{{MicroFormatPatentStatement}}

=== Inspiration and Acknowledgments ===
Thanks to everyone who participated in the [[geo-bof-2005-06-30|Geo Microformat BOF at O'Reilly's Where 2.0 conference]], and in particular to [http://radar.oreilly.com/nat/ Nat Torkington] and Vee McMillen of [http://oreilly.com O'Reilly] for [http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/where2005/view/e_sess/7476 arranging and hosting the BOF]. Thanks to Chris Hibbbert for providing the [http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=dc4754bf-64d5-4f28-8715-45ad2505c86f real world geo-caching example].

== Introduction and Background ==
The vCard standard ([http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2426.txt RFC2426]), has been broadly and interoperably implemented (e.g. Apple's Address Book application). The [[hcard|hCard]] microformat has similarly received significant adoption, from numerous sites publishing the format, to hCard to vCard proxies, to clientside javascript parsers.

At the [http://conferences.oreillynet.com/where/ Where 2.0 conference] in June 2005, there was widespread recognition that the community needed a way to simply and easily publish visible, extractable, geographic location information on the Web, given how often bloggers, and numerous other sites publish such information. The [[geo-bof-2005-06-30|geo microformat BOF]] discussed this very topic, and concluded with a consensus decision to just try using ''geo'' from vCard/hCard.

This specification introduces the '''geo''' microformat, which is a 1:1 representation of the aforementioned ''geo'' property from the vCard standard, by simply reusing the ''geo'' property and sub-properties as-is from the [[hcard|hCard]] microformat.

Publishers can both embed '''geo''' addresses directly in their web pages and feeds, as well as markup existing latitude/longitude coordinates in the context of the rest of the information in their web pages and feeds.

If the publisher knows and is publishing the ''name'' of the location in addition to its geo lat/long, then the publisher {{must}} use [[hcard|hCard]] instead of just '''geo''' to publish the name and geo lat/long of the location.

If the publisher knows and is publishing the address of the location, OR if the address of the location was what was actually entered by a human, and the publisher simply turned that into lat/long using some sort of a service, then the publisher {{should}} use [[adr]] to publish the actual human entered address information since that communicates far more semantic information than a simple geo lat/long coordinate.

== Semantic XHTML Design Principles ==
{{semantic-xhtml-design-principles}}

== Format ==
=== Singular Properties ===

Note that all the properties in '''geo''' are singular properties, and thus the first descendant element with that class should take effect, any others being ignored.

=== Human vs. Machine readable ===

If an <code><abbr></code> element is used for a property, then the <code>title</code> attribute of the <code><abbr></code> element is the value of the property, instead of the contents of the element, which instead provide a human presentable version of the value.

=== Value excerpting ===

Sometimes only part of an element which is the equivalent for a property should be used for the value of the property. For this purpose, the special class name <code>value</code> is used to excerpt out the subset of the element that is the value of the property. See [[hcard|hCard]] for details on this.

=== Root Class Name ===

The root class name for an geo location is <code>geo</code>.

=== Property List ===

This is the list of properties in geo, taken from [[hcard|hCard]]:

* latitude
* longitude

=== XMDP Profile ===

See [[hcard-profile]] for the [http://gmpg.org/xmdp XMDP] profile of hCard which contains the above complete list of properties, with references to their RFC 2426 definitions.

=== Parsing Details ===

See [[hcard-parsing|hCard parsing]], with the only difference being that "geo" is the root class name, rather than "vcard".

== Examples ==

This section is informative.

=== Example from RFC2426 ===

Section 3.4.2 of RFC2426 has a simple geo example:

<source lang=text>
GEO:37.386013;-122.082932
</source>

this vCard fragment as a geo, as [http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-examples#3.4.2_GEO_Type_Definition first documented on the hCard examples page]:

<source lang=html4strict>
<div class="geo">GEO:
<span class="latitude">37.386013</span>,
<span class="longitude">-122.082932</span>
</div>
</source>

this geo could be displayed as: 

<div class="geo">GEO: <span class="latitude">37.386013</span>, <span class="longitude">-122.082932</span></div>

Note that this is a '''live''' geo microformat, which will be found on this page by parsers.

=== Real world geo example ===

Here is a sample of published lat/long info (from [http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=dc4754bf-64d5-4f28-8715-45ad2505c86f geocaching: Noble Steed]):

<source lang=text>
N 37° 24.491 W 122° 08.313
</source>

With geo markup:

<source lang=html4strict>
<div class="geo">
<abbr class="latitude" title="37.408183">N 37° 24.491</abbr>
<abbr class="longitude" title="-122.13855">W 122° 08.313</abbr>
</div>
</source>

This geo might be displayed as: 

<div class="geo"><abbr class="latitude" title="37.408183">N 37° 24.491</abbr> <abbr class="longitude" title="-122.13855">W 122° 08.313</abbr>
</div>

Again, this is a '''live''' example.

Note that since the real world example used a more human readable presentation of the geo coordinates, we use the [[abbr-design-pattern]] to keep that more human readable presentation, and in addition provide the respective absolute numerical values for the geo.

=== with value-title ===
There may be instances where you only have text like "the location" in your page, and yet you want to mark it up with geo coordinates. While it is better to markup visible data (for longevity, fidelity, reviewability), if for design reasons you're unable to provide visible display of geo details, you may use the [[value-class-pattern#Parsing_value_from_a_title_attribute|value class pattern value-title]] to markup them up:

<source lang=html4strict>
We met at a
<span class="geo">
<span class="latitude">
<span class="value-title" title="37.386013"> </span>
</span>
<span class="longitude">
<span class="value-title" title="-122.082932"> </span>
</span>
certain location
</span>
</source>

This geo may be displayed as:

We met at a <span class="geo"><span class="latitude"><span class="value-title" title="37.386013"> </span></span><span class="longitude"><span class="value-title" title="-122.082932"> </span></span> certain location</span>

== Examples in the wild ==

This section is '''informative'''. The number of Geo examples in the wild has expanded far beyond the capacity of being kept inline in this specification. They have been moved to a separate page, [[geo-examples-in-wild|Geo examples in the wild]].

== Implementations ==
This section is '''informative'''.

The following implementations have been developed which either generate or parse geos outside the context of hCards. If you have an geo implementation, feel free to add it to the '''top''' of this list. Once the list grows too big, we'll make a separate wiki page.

*[http://www.pikadom.fr/ Pikadom] Pikadom is a real estate search engine that use geotaging feature in every cities pages avalaible in France, for a relevant search. Example : [http://www.pikadom.fr/pessac-33600/achat/ For Pessac's city] , you can find the Postal Adress Markup but also the GeoCoordinates of the city and it's suburbs.
** But how does it implement the geo microformat? It's not clear from the home page. - [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 17:11, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
*WordPress.com's [http://en.support.wordpress.com/geotagging/ geotagging feature] lets you geotag user profiles and posts. Geo Search is also coming soon.
*Clem Rutter's "[http://www.rutter.uklinux.net/ostowiki.html OSGBGridRefs to WGS84]" converter - Takes UK or Irish OS grid references and converts them to WGS84 coordinates, with two types of Geo mark-up (<code>SPAN</code> and <code>ABBR</code>) available to copy & paste.
*I've added Geo mark-up to the output of Wikipedia's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:GeoTemplate GeoTemplate] which is called by '''many thousands''' of other Wikipedia pages. Example: the coordinates (top right) in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barr] link to [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/geo/geohack.php?params=52.54833_N_1.93212_W_region:GB_source:enwiki-osgb36(SP047945)]; the latter now has Geo mark-up in the "[http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/geo/geohack.php?params=52.686_N_2.193_W_region:GB_type:landmark#Mark-up Mark-up]" section. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 03:10, 13 Jul 2007 (PDT)
* [http://www.sydneydirectory.org/ Sydney Directory Wiki] supports geographical coordinates for locations
*GIS-Wiki's "[http://www.giswiki.org/hjl_get_CoorE.htm hjl_getCoor]" now outputs Geo markup, from a Google Maps API.
*[http://www.addressfix.com/ AddressFix] takes any valid address in the listed countries (as at 2003-07) or map point (using GoogleMaps API) and outputs geo markup.
**Countries: Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Italy, Japan (but only in Japanese), Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, San Marino, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United States of America and the Vatican City.
**For countries other than the UK, the British Isles and China it provides geocoding for country names and city names (e.g. "Nairobi, Kenya").
**For UK, the British Isles and China, Google returns an error.
* [http://code.highearthorbit.com/greaseroute/index.php GreaseRoute] is a GreaseMonkey user script (also available as a simple Firefox Extension) which will add icons for displaying the MapQuest map of a [[geo]]. Written by [http://highearthorbit.com Andrew Turner]
* [http://www.podster.de/page/geotest podster.de] finds geo markups in podcast RSS Feeds and maps soundseeing episodes on a map (German only)
* [http://blog.codeeg.com/ Calvin Yu] has written a [http://blog.codeeg.com/2006/01/28/using-microformats-to-plot-my-favorite-places/ web service that will allow you plot and describe places on a Yahoo Map easily] using [[hreview|hReview]] and [[geo]].
* [http://bluesmoon.blogspot.com/ Philip Tellis] has written a [http://bluesmoon.blogspot.com/2006/01/of-microformats-and-geocoding.html javascript to add maps to geo markup on pages]
* [http://placenamehere.com/TXP/pnh_mf/ pnh_mf] is a plugin for [http://textpattern.com/ Textpattern] that supports embedding geos and other microformats in templates and blog posts. Written by [http://placenamehere.com/ Chris Casciano].
* [http://bluesmoon.blogspot.com/ Philip Tellis] has written some javascript to [http://bluesmoon.blogspot.com/2006/01/of-microformats-and-geocoding.html convert the geo microformat to a google map] using [[geo]].
* Brian Suda has written some [http://suda.co.uk/projects/microformats/geo/ geo extracting] code to convert geo microformats to KML for use with Google Maps and Google Earth. There is also a bookmarklet to extract the data and pass it to google maps automatically. He is working on a GeoRSS version for Yahoo! Maps as well.
**GPX export is done, but needs some tweaking and testing. Just change &type=(kml|georss|gpx). Not quite ready for primetime yet. Feel free to test and send feedback.
* Fil explains [http://www.jquery.info/spip.php?article7 how to use the geo microformat with the javascript library jQuery] [http://jquery.com].
* [http://www.openstreetmap.org OpenStreetMap] uses the geo microformat on its wiki for place pages (added by [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/User:Pigsonthewing Andy Mabbett]) and also on the GPS trace pages and diary entry pages ([http://www.dankarran.com/blog/archives/2007/09/04/pinpoint_your_openstreetmap_diary_entries.php added] by [http://www.dankarran.com Dan Karran]).
* [http://www.locify.com Locify] uses [[geo]] format for presenting waypoints stored from the mobile client.
* [http://mmm.iamnear.net Magical Microformat Maker - a Geo Microformat Generator with a big map]

== References ==
=== Normative References ===
* [[hcard|hCard]]

=== Informative References ===
* [http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2426.txt vCard RFC2426] ([http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/rfc2426 HTML reformatted version of RFC2426])
* [http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xhtml1-20020801/ XHTML 1.0 SE]
* [http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tigermap.html TIGER Map Service]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geotagging Wikipedia article on GeoTagging]

== Work in progress ==
This specification is a work in progress. As additional aspects are discussed, understood, and written, they will be added.

* Proposals for changes, additions and other thoughts about [[geo]] may be found at [[geo-brainstorming]].

== Related Work ==
* [[luna]] (proposal for geo-style microformat for co-ordinates on The Moon)
* [[mars]] (proposal for geo-style microformat for co-ordinates on the planet Mars)
* [[geo-extension-strawman]] - extends [[geo]] to include the above, and for representing coordinates on other planets, moons etc.
* [[thoughts-on-extending-the-geo-microformat|thoughts on addind time and reference system]] to the geo microformat, that could also be used for places on other celestial bodies

== Similar Work ==
* [[adr]]
* [[hcalendar|hCalendar]]
* [[XOXO]]

== See Also ==
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geo_%28microformat%29 Geo on Wikipedia]
* [http://wikitravel.org/en/Wikitravel:Geocoding#Sources_for_lat.2Flongs Sources for latitude/ longitude coordinates]

== Related Pages ==
{{geo-related-pages}}

[[Category:Draft_Specifications]]
[[Category:Geo]]
[[Category:hCard]]

geo

2013-01-04T15:31:15Z

Mumudede:

<entry-title>Geo</entry-title>
{{Template:DraftSpecification}}

'''geo''' (pronounced "gee-oh") is a simple format for marking up [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGS84 WGS84] geographic coordinates (latitude; longitude), suitable for embedding in HTML or XHTML, Atom, RSS, and arbitrary XML. '''geo''' is a 1:1 representation of the "geo" property in the vCard standard ([http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2426.txt RFC2426]) in HTML, one of several open [[microformats|microformat]] standards.

== Draft Specification ==

;Editor/Author
: [http://tantek.com/ Tantek Çelik] ([http://technorati.com Technorati, Inc.])

=== Copyright ===
Per the public domain release on [[User:Tantek|my user page]], this specification is released into the public domain.

{{MicroFormatPublicDomainContributionStatement}}

=== Patents ===
{{MicroFormatPatentStatement}}

=== Inspiration and Acknowledgments ===
Thanks to everyone who participated in the [[geo-bof-2005-06-30|Geo Microformat BOF at O'Reilly's Where 2.0 conference]], and in particular to [http://radar.oreilly.com/nat/ Nat Torkington] and Vee McMillen of [http://oreilly.com O'Reilly] for [http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/where2005/view/e_sess/7476 arranging and hosting the BOF]. Thanks to Chris Hibbbert for providing the [http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=dc4754bf-64d5-4f28-8715-45ad2505c86f real world geo-caching example].

== Introduction and Background ==
The vCard standard ([http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2426.txt RFC2426]), has been broadly and interoperably implemented (e.g. Apple's Address Book application). The [[hcard|hCard]] microformat has similarly received significant adoption, from numerous sites publishing the format, to hCard to vCard proxies, to clientside javascript parsers.

At the [http://conferences.oreillynet.com/where/ Where 2.0 conference] in June 2005, there was widespread recognition that the community needed a way to simply and easily publish visible, extractable, geographic location information on the Web, given how often bloggers, and numerous other sites publish such information. The [[geo-bof-2005-06-30|geo microformat BOF]] discussed this very topic, and concluded with a consensus decision to just try using ''geo'' from vCard/hCard.

This specification introduces the '''geo''' microformat, which is a 1:1 representation of the aforementioned ''geo'' property from the vCard standard, by simply reusing the ''geo'' property and sub-properties as-is from the [[hcard|hCard]] microformat.

Publishers can both embed '''geo''' addresses directly in their web pages and feeds, as well as markup existing latitude/longitude coordinates in the context of the rest of the information in their web pages and feeds.

If the publisher knows and is publishing the ''name'' of the location in addition to its geo lat/long, then the publisher {{must}} use [[hcard|hCard]] instead of just '''geo''' to publish the name and geo lat/long of the location.

If the publisher knows and is publishing the address of the location, OR if the address of the location was what was actually entered by a human, and the publisher simply turned that into lat/long using some sort of a service, then the publisher {{should}} use [[adr]] to publish the actual human entered address information since that communicates far more semantic information than a simple geo lat/long coordinate.

== Semantic XHTML Design Principles ==
{{semantic-xhtml-design-principles}}

== Format ==
=== Singular Properties ===

Note that all the properties in '''geo''' are singular properties, and thus the first descendant element with that class should take effect, any others being ignored.

=== Human vs. Machine readable ===

If an <code><abbr></code> element is used for a property, then the <code>title</code> attribute of the <code><abbr></code> element is the value of the property, instead of the contents of the element, which instead provide a human presentable version of the value.

=== Value excerpting ===

Sometimes only part of an element which is the equivalent for a property should be used for the value of the property. For this purpose, the special class name <code>value</code> is used to excerpt out the subset of the element that is the value of the property. See [[hcard|hCard]] for details on this.

=== Root Class Name ===

The root class name for an geo location is <code>geo</code>.

=== Property List ===

This is the list of properties in geo, taken from [[hcard|hCard]]:

* latitude
* longitude

=== XMDP Profile ===

See [[hcard-profile]] for the [http://gmpg.org/xmdp XMDP] profile of hCard which contains the above complete list of properties, with references to their RFC 2426 definitions.

=== Parsing Details ===

See [[hcard-parsing|hCard parsing]], with the only difference being that "geo" is the root class name, rather than "vcard".

== Examples ==

This section is informative.

=== Example from RFC2426 ===

Section 3.4.2 of RFC2426 has a simple geo example:

<source lang=text>
GEO:37.386013;-122.082932
</source>

this vCard fragment as a geo, as [http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-examples#3.4.2_GEO_Type_Definition first documented on the hCard examples page]:

<source lang=html4strict>
<div class="geo">GEO:
<span class="latitude">37.386013</span>,
<span class="longitude">-122.082932</span>
</div>
</source>

this geo could be displayed as: 

<div class="geo">GEO: <span class="latitude">37.386013</span>, <span class="longitude">-122.082932</span></div>

Note that this is a '''live''' geo microformat, which will be found on this page by parsers.

=== Real world geo example ===

Here is a sample of published lat/long info (from [http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=dc4754bf-64d5-4f28-8715-45ad2505c86f geocaching: Noble Steed]):

<source lang=text>
N 37° 24.491 W 122° 08.313
</source>

With geo markup:

<source lang=html4strict>
<div class="geo">
<abbr class="latitude" title="37.408183">N 37° 24.491</abbr>
<abbr class="longitude" title="-122.13855">W 122° 08.313</abbr>
</div>
</source>

This geo might be displayed as: 

<div class="geo"><abbr class="latitude" title="37.408183">N 37° 24.491</abbr> <abbr class="longitude" title="-122.13855">W 122° 08.313</abbr>
</div>

Again, this is a '''live''' example.

Note that since the real world example used a more human readable presentation of the geo coordinates, we use the [[abbr-design-pattern]] to keep that more human readable presentation, and in addition provide the respective absolute numerical values for the geo.

=== with value-title ===
There may be instances where you only have text like "the location" in your page, and yet you want to mark it up with geo coordinates. While it is better to markup visible data (for longevity, fidelity, reviewability), if for design reasons you're unable to provide visible display of geo details, you may use the [[value-class-pattern#Parsing_value_from_a_title_attribute|value class pattern value-title]] to markup them up:

<source lang=html4strict>
We met at a
<span class="geo">
<span class="latitude">
<span class="value-title" title="37.386013"> </span>
</span>
<span class="longitude">
<span class="value-title" title="-122.082932"> </span>
</span>
certain location
</span>
</source>

This geo may be displayed as:

We met at a <span class="geo"><span class="latitude"><span class="value-title" title="37.386013"> </span></span><span class="longitude"><span class="value-title" title="-122.082932"> </span></span> certain location</span>

== Examples in the wild ==

This section is '''informative'''. The number of Geo examples in the wild has expanded far beyond the capacity of being kept inline in this specification. They have been moved to a separate page, [[geo-examples-in-wild|Geo examples in the wild]].

== Implementations ==
This section is '''informative'''.

The following implementations have been developed which either generate or parse geos outside the context of hCards. If you have an geo implementation, feel free to add it to the '''top''' of this list. Once the list grows too big, we'll make a separate wiki page.

*[http://www.pikadom.fr/ Pikadom] Pikadom is a real estate search engine that use geotaging feature in every cities pages avalaible in France, for a relevant search.
*WordPress.com's [http://en.support.wordpress.com/geotagging/ geotagging feature] lets you geotag user profiles and posts. Geo Search is also coming soon.
*Clem Rutter's "[http://www.rutter.uklinux.net/ostowiki.html OSGBGridRefs to WGS84]" converter - Takes UK or Irish OS grid references and converts them to WGS84 coordinates, with two types of Geo mark-up (<code>SPAN</code> and <code>ABBR</code>) available to copy & paste.
*I've added Geo mark-up to the output of Wikipedia's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:GeoTemplate GeoTemplate] which is called by '''many thousands''' of other Wikipedia pages. Example: the coordinates (top right) in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barr] link to [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/geo/geohack.php?params=52.54833_N_1.93212_W_region:GB_source:enwiki-osgb36(SP047945)]; the latter now has Geo mark-up in the "[http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/geo/geohack.php?params=52.686_N_2.193_W_region:GB_type:landmark#Mark-up Mark-up]" section. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 03:10, 13 Jul 2007 (PDT)
* [http://www.sydneydirectory.org/ Sydney Directory Wiki] supports geographical coordinates for locations
*GIS-Wiki's "[http://www.giswiki.org/hjl_get_CoorE.htm hjl_getCoor]" now outputs Geo markup, from a Google Maps API.
*[http://www.addressfix.com/ AddressFix] takes any valid address in the listed countries (as at 2003-07) or map point (using GoogleMaps API) and outputs geo markup.
**Countries: Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Italy, Japan (but only in Japanese), Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, San Marino, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United States of America and the Vatican City.
**For countries other than the UK, the British Isles and China it provides geocoding for country names and city names (e.g. "Nairobi, Kenya").
**For UK, the British Isles and China, Google returns an error.
* [http://code.highearthorbit.com/greaseroute/index.php GreaseRoute] is a GreaseMonkey user script (also available as a simple Firefox Extension) which will add icons for displaying the MapQuest map of a [[geo]]. Written by [http://highearthorbit.com Andrew Turner]
* [http://www.podster.de/page/geotest podster.de] finds geo markups in podcast RSS Feeds and maps soundseeing episodes on a map (German only)
* [http://blog.codeeg.com/ Calvin Yu] has written a [http://blog.codeeg.com/2006/01/28/using-microformats-to-plot-my-favorite-places/ web service that will allow you plot and describe places on a Yahoo Map easily] using [[hreview|hReview]] and [[geo]].
* [http://bluesmoon.blogspot.com/ Philip Tellis] has written a [http://bluesmoon.blogspot.com/2006/01/of-microformats-and-geocoding.html javascript to add maps to geo markup on pages]
* [http://placenamehere.com/TXP/pnh_mf/ pnh_mf] is a plugin for [http://textpattern.com/ Textpattern] that supports embedding geos and other microformats in templates and blog posts. Written by [http://placenamehere.com/ Chris Casciano].
* [http://bluesmoon.blogspot.com/ Philip Tellis] has written some javascript to [http://bluesmoon.blogspot.com/2006/01/of-microformats-and-geocoding.html convert the geo microformat to a google map] using [[geo]].
* Brian Suda has written some [http://suda.co.uk/projects/microformats/geo/ geo extracting] code to convert geo microformats to KML for use with Google Maps and Google Earth. There is also a bookmarklet to extract the data and pass it to google maps automatically. He is working on a GeoRSS version for Yahoo! Maps as well.
**GPX export is done, but needs some tweaking and testing. Just change &type=(kml|georss|gpx). Not quite ready for primetime yet. Feel free to test and send feedback.
* Fil explains [http://www.jquery.info/spip.php?article7 how to use the geo microformat with the javascript library jQuery] [http://jquery.com].
* [http://www.openstreetmap.org OpenStreetMap] uses the geo microformat on its wiki for place pages (added by [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/User:Pigsonthewing Andy Mabbett]) and also on the GPS trace pages and diary entry pages ([http://www.dankarran.com/blog/archives/2007/09/04/pinpoint_your_openstreetmap_diary_entries.php added] by [http://www.dankarran.com Dan Karran]).
* [http://www.locify.com Locify] uses [[geo]] format for presenting waypoints stored from the mobile client.
* [http://mmm.iamnear.net Magical Microformat Maker - a Geo Microformat Generator with a big map]

== References ==
=== Normative References ===
* [[hcard|hCard]]

=== Informative References ===
* [http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2426.txt vCard RFC2426] ([http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/rfc2426 HTML reformatted version of RFC2426])
* [http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xhtml1-20020801/ XHTML 1.0 SE]
* [http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tigermap.html TIGER Map Service]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geotagging Wikipedia article on GeoTagging]

== Work in progress ==
This specification is a work in progress. As additional aspects are discussed, understood, and written, they will be added.

* Proposals for changes, additions and other thoughts about [[geo]] may be found at [[geo-brainstorming]].

== Related Work ==
* [[luna]] (proposal for geo-style microformat for co-ordinates on The Moon)
* [[mars]] (proposal for geo-style microformat for co-ordinates on the planet Mars)
* [[geo-extension-strawman]] - extends [[geo]] to include the above, and for representing coordinates on other planets, moons etc.
* [[thoughts-on-extending-the-geo-microformat|thoughts on addind time and reference system]] to the geo microformat, that could also be used for places on other celestial bodies

== Similar Work ==
* [[adr]]
* [[hcalendar|hCalendar]]
* [[XOXO]]

== See Also ==
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geo_%28microformat%29 Geo on Wikipedia]
* [http://wikitravel.org/en/Wikitravel:Geocoding#Sources_for_lat.2Flongs Sources for latitude/ longitude coordinates]

== Related Pages ==
{{geo-related-pages}}

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[[Category:Geo]]
[[Category:hCard]]