geo-examples-in-wild

2011-05-05T01:56:09Z

Tommy1:

==Geo Examples In The Wild==

This section is '''informative'''.

The following sites have published [[geo|Geo]] microformats, outside their normal context of [[hcard|hCards]] or [[hcalendar|hCalendars]], and thus are a great place to start for anyone looking for examples "in the wild" to try parsing, indexing, organizing etc., in addition to the in many [[hcard-examples-in-wild|hCard examples in the wild]] and [[hcalendar-examples-in-wild|hCalendar examples in the wild]]. If you find Geos outside of hCards / hCalendars anywhere else, feel free to add them to the '''top''' of this list.

Pages with live Geo can use this button (see [[buttons#Geo]] for any recent additions): http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/geo.png

* [http://www.charleschurch.com Charles Church House Builder] uses hCard for property development addresses and geo latitude and longitude. See [http://www.charleschurch.com/carmarthenshire_ammanford/pen-y-bryn-1067 Homes for sale in Ammanford] page for embedded hcard on property development pages.
* [http://www.flightline.co.uk Flightline] - geo location of Reservations Office, which is open to the public.
* [http://www.energies-reseaux-expo.com/ Forum Energies Réseaux] uses geo data, among others, to help users pinpoint the exact location of the tradeshow.
* [http://www.nasceskyraj.cz NASCESKYRAJ.CZ] uses hCards geo tag for exactly location specification of every accomodation object in Bohemian Paradise, Czech republic
* [http://www.oktravel.com.au/au/nsw/sydney/ okTravel Sydney] Features geo microformat data for various places across Australia.
* [http://local.mapquest.com/ MapQuest Local] uses hCards for locations, hCalendar for events and supports the draft Geo format when lat/lng data is provided. See [http://blog.mapquest.com/2008/09/25/microformat-support-on-mapquest-local/ Microformat Support on MapQuest Local] for more information.
* LocalHero (localhero dot biz) A local search which returns it search results in geo microformat (as well as many other microformats).
* [http://www.altosresearch.com/research/CA/SAN+JOSE Altos Research LLC] Provides geo microformat data for each city-specific real estate research pages.
* [http://www.dancefederation.co.uk Dance Federation Salsa Dancing & Jive Dancing Lessons and Events ] Directory for classes, lessons and events users hcalendar and geo for events and lessons.
* [http://www.locify.com/ Locify] - geo location of stored places by users from mobile client
* [http://www.upcoming.org/ Upcoming.org] - geo location of event
* [http://local.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Local] - geo location of businesses, services, and events
* [http://www.tripit.com/ TripIt] - Each trip in the TripIt contact list of your connections is marked up with geo markup.
* [http://localstats.qpzm.com.au Qpzm Locastats] - Stats and geo location for Australian Suburbs and cities.
* [http://www.tripsailor.com TripSailor.com] sailing community site features Geo for worldwide marina guide and hReview for reviews. See [http://www.tripsailor.com/pois/6333915-lymington-marina Lymington Marina with reviews]
* [http://www.sharemyroutes.com ShareMyRoutes.com] uses geo microformat descriptions of waypoints and photos, and has geo formatted download of route information, e.g.[http://www.sharemyroutes.com/routes/United-Kingdom/Near-Pickering-North-Yorkshire/Dalby-Forest-Red-Route/download.aspx?strformat=geo&straction=download Dalby Forest Red Route]

* [http://tilaphos.blogspot.com tilaphos blog] uses geo microformats for pointing to burnt areas recorded with a GPS and shown on a Google map. In Greek language. Other pages using geo microformats: [http://tilaphos.googlepages.com/areas.html map] and [http://tilaphos.googlepages.com/fullareas.html full page map]
* [http://www.mapmytracks.com Map My Tracks] uses Geo microformats for the starting points of individual tracks created by mobile phone GPS tracking. See: [http://www.mapmytracks.com/explore/track/112 Elsenham Golf course]
* [http://www.warmoth.com/gallery/gallery.cfm Warmoth Guitar Products Customer Gallery] features Geo microformats on the individual guitar detail pages. Example: [http://www.warmoth.com/gallery/gallery.cfm?fuseaction=include_container&id=193 Patrick Abbot's Guitar]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/bangladeshboat BBC World Service Bangladesh River Journey] a social network mashup, uses Geo with hAtom entries. See [http://dharmafly.com/blog/bangladeshboat Dharmafly blog discussion].
* [http://www.gpsies.com/ GPSies.com] uses Geo markup to show start and endpoint of a track.
* Christian Hess uses Geo to indicate where pictures in his photo gallery where taken, such as [http://www.hess-cr.com/secciones/galeria/playahermosa.shtml here] and [http://www.hess-cr.com/secciones/galeria/playascr.shtml here].
* [http://www.txioka.net/ekitaldiak.php Txioka] has support for Geo and [[hcalendar|hCalendar]] microformats, parses twitter messages with [[twitter-nanoformats|twitter nanoformats]] and converts to geo and hcalendar.
* [http://www.navitraveler.com/places/629/ NaviTraveler], e. g. [http://www.navitraveler.com/places/629/Lincoln_Memorial.html Lincoln Memorial].
** Response in under 12 hours, to advocacy request - [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://caving.atspace.com/ Caving in the Settle Area] uses Geo to mark up the U.K. NGR for cave locations.
*[http://gc.kls2.com/ Great Circle Mapper] ("GCM"; e.g. [http://tinyurl.com/yugscj sample GCM trip], [http://gc.kls2.com/airport/BHX BHX on GCM])
* [http://www.creation.uk.com Creation design & marketing] has Geo microformat on the [http://www.creation.uk.com/contact/ contact information].
* <s>Wikipedia now has a template, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Hcard-geo hcard-geo], for in-line hCards with coordinates, using Geo, such as that on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine_Arm Engine Arm]</s>
*[http://www.logon.ie/contact-us/ LogOn.ie] have added Geo (and hCard) to their contact page.
*[http://www.davidosbornephotography.co.uk/gallery2/main.php www.davidosbornephotography.co.uk] has implemented Geo on all location photography pages; eg. [http://www.davidosbornephotography.co.uk/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=1747 Callanish Stones]
*Wikipedia-IT now has Geo on all [http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciale:PuntanoQui/Template:Coord pages using the ''coord'' template], e.g. [http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messina Messina]. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 07:05, 26 May 2007 (PDT)
*'Area' pages on Wholemap, summarizing the photos, videos, etc... for a specific area, now have Geo codes - [http://wholemap.com/map/area.php?area=NiagaraFalls Niagara Falls, for example] May 10, 2007
*The Italian Wikipedia, for example [http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genova Genova (Genoa)]
*Geo has been added to all of [http://socialight.com Socialight]'s Sticky Notes - here's an example: [http://socialight.com/note/2007/4/14/11Aqk_a-great-way-to-spend-a-few-hours]
*The [http://www.bayofislands.net/ Bay of Islands] site has Geo on its main page, and all photo pages. Example: [http://www.bayofislands.net/photos/8/ photo of Edgewater Apartments]
*I've added geo to [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Location_dec_US all images tagged in Wikimedia Commons] using decimal values. Example: [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Montreal_City_Hall_Jan_2006.jpg Montreal City Hall, Jan 2006] [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 08:54, 12 Apr 2007 (PDT)
**Now on pages tagged in D-M-S also.
*Spotstor.com - e.g. [http://spotstor.com] uses Geo for all coordinates displayed on the site.
*Panoramio - e.g. [http://www.panoramio.com/photo/564690]
* Wikipedia-NL now has Geo on all its map-links pages, e.g. [http://www.nsesoftware.nl/wiki/maps.asp?params=52_28_47_N_1_53_51_W_type:city_region:GB&src=Birmingham_%28Engeland%29 maps for Wikipedia-NL article on Birmingham]
**Called from '''87,724''' article pages as of 2006-04-09; reportedly the sixth most popular website in the Netherlands [http://www.multiscope.nl/organisatie/nieuws/sberichten/nederlandse-wikipedia-groeit-als-kool.html].
* I recently added Geo to Wikipedia-DE's map link pages e.g. [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/geo/geohack.php?language=de&params=52_28_47_N_1_53_51_W_type:city_region:GB maps for Wikipedia-DE article on Birmingham]. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 14:27, 9 Apr 2007 (PDT)
* I've just added Geo to OpenStreetMap documentation pages - see [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Birmingham Birmingham page on OpenStreetMap] for example. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 02:39, 6 Apr 2007 (PDT)
* I've [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3AGeoTemplate&diff=119003866&oldid=118216477 just added] Geo to 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 a Geo microformat. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 03:38, 30 Mar 2007 (PDT)
** [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~kolossos/wp-world/imageworld-art.php Map showing global distribution of Geo-tagged Wikipedia articles].
* [http://www.jillesvangurp.com/places jillesvangurp.com] provides an xsl stylesheet to transform Google Earth place-marks (KMZ files) into html with nested lists of Geo formatted places. Several examples are provided.
*[http://www.geograph.org.uk Geograph British Isles] has experimental support for geos on '''350,000+''' photo pages, for example http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1234
*[http://www.poi66.com/ POI66] has '''over 58,500''' waypoints Geo-formatted, many describing [[geo-waypoint-examples|trails]] e.g [http://www.poi66.com/maps/show_album.php?album=santiago Mijn pelgrimstocht naar Santiago]
* [http://3amproductions.net 3AM Productions] has published coordinates of cities both in and outside the context of hCards under [http://3amproductions.net/jason.php Jason's] and [http://3amproductions.net/gilbert.php Gil's] pages.
*Wikitravel now has the facility to add co-ordinates for the subject of the article, and publishes them as a Geo microformat - e.g. [http://wikitravel.org/en/Birmingham_%28England%29 Wikitravel - Birmingham]; see [http://wikitravel.org/shared/Tech:Add_SpecialMap_using_Mapstraction_link_for_geo-tagged_pages_and_for_single_listings The announcement].
* [http://flickr.com/ Flickr] now [http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2006/08/great_shot_wher.html supports the geo microformat] on all [http://flickr.com/map/ geotagged photos]. Within 11 days of launch there are now over '''3,000,000+''' photos (as of 2006-09-07) marked up with the "geo" microformat.
* [http://ocono.com/ ocono.com] has marked each of it's "Upcoming Events" items with latitude/longitude values.
* [http://harry.hchen1.com/mylife.htm Harry Chen has marked up his geo location]
* [http://www.multimap.com Multimap.com] uses Geo to mark up latitude and longitude values on map pages.
* [http://rasterweb.net/raster/ Pete Prodoehl] geotags posts on his blog.
* [http://07.pagesd.info/ 07.pagesd.info] uses Geo to mark up latitude and longitude values for each commune of the Ardèche département in France.
* [http://www.openguides.org/ OpenGuides] has support for Geo in svn, and for now you can see it in action on the [http://cotswolds.openguides.org/ Cotswolds OpenGuide]
* [http://jerba.be/fr/annuaire/ Djerba Directory] uses Geo to markup Lat/Long values attached to Vcard for some listed services in Directory.



===Examples with some problems===

Entries may be moved here if there's a problem with the way Geo is used on the page concerned. If the page is yours, and you want to improve it, see the [[hcard-faq|hCard & Geo FAQ]], or raise any queries on [[hcard-issues|hCard & Geo Issues]] or [[mailing-lists#microformats-discuss|the mailing list]], where people will be happy to help you.

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Templates_generating_Geo Wikipedia-EN templates_generating_Geo]
**'''hidden''' - for example [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Minnesota_State_Parks List of Minnesota state parks]
*[http://barcamp.org/BarCampBlock Bar Camp Block]
**Geo uses integer values; displayed text also has minutes and seconds
* [http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/events/ Dan Connoly's Index of Events] has a few Geos
** Two of the Geos are invalid because they use commas instead of semicolons

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

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