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== GeoUrl == | == GeoUrl == | ||
* [http://geourl.org/ GeoURL] | * [http://geourl.org/ GeoURL] | ||
== Flickr Geotags == | == Flickr Geotags == | ||
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* [http://mappr.com mappr], [http://brainoff.com/worldkit/flick mapping flickr] also support these geotags. | * [http://mappr.com mappr], [http://brainoff.com/worldkit/flick mapping flickr] also support these geotags. | ||
* flickr also supports [http://www.flickr.com/services/api/flickr.photos.getExif.html EXIF headers], which can be used for storing location. | * flickr also supports [http://www.flickr.com/services/api/flickr.photos.getExif.html EXIF headers], which can be used for storing location. | ||
== Geotagging == | |||
* Geotagging has been employed in other hosted services: [http://brainoff.com/worldkit/delicious/ delicious], [http://worldkit.typepad.com/ Typepad], [http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-yRZQpvY8cq2kWXBO5ZrxEmrwsg--?p=9 Yahoo 360] | |||
== A2B == | == A2B == | ||
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* [http://brainoff.com/worldkit/doc/rss.php worldKit RSS docs] - worldKit advocates and understands various flavors of geocoded RSS; particularly the "geo" namespace. | * [http://brainoff.com/worldkit/doc/rss.php worldKit RSS docs] - worldKit advocates and understands various flavors of geocoded RSS; particularly the "geo" namespace. | ||
* [http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/rss.html USGS earthquake feed] - most widely used geocoded RSS feed | * [http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/rss.html USGS earthquake feed] - most widely used geocoded RSS feed | ||
* [http://brainoff.com/worldkit/doc/polygon.php Polygons and lines in polygons] - A simple format for expressing polygons and lines is defined for worldKit | |||
== Address2Coordinates == | == Address2Coordinates == | ||
Revision as of 17:39, 28 June 2005
Location Formats
This is a list of previous efforts at location / geographic ("Geo") data formats and protocols, as background research for developing a location format.
vCard & hCard
vCard (RFC2426) and hcard includes 'adr', a way to markup addresses. There is also a field called 'geo' for lat/long.
ICBM
Comma seperated list of lat/long <meta name="ICBM" content="XXX.XXXXX, XXX.XXXXX">
[1]
GeoUrl
Flickr Geotags
- Flickr GeoTagging A Greasemonkey script for adding lat and long tags to flick pictures. He uses Google Maps to get the lat and long. Users have to enter search terms (address, etc) and then select a point on the google map. Photos are tagged with "geo:lat=xx.xxxx", "geo:lon=xx.xxxx" and "geotagged" and aggregated at [2]
- A Flickr Group related to the topic
- A visual walkthrough of the technique.
- As of today (2005-06-01), 14k photos have been geotagged on Flickr.
- mappr, mapping flickr also support these geotags.
- flickr also supports EXIF headers, which can be used for storing location.
Geotagging
A2B
A2B is a location based search engine. Lat and long only. Seems to pick stuff up from geo meta tags. Pages can either be manually entered or pinged. They support lat/long and ICBM meta tags.
RSS
Several people have tried putting geographic information into RSS.
- This site uses icbm coordinates and has plugins for several blogging packages.
- BlogMapper - appears to be adding a namespace to RSS.
- BlogMap - picks up RSS extension and meta tag values
- worldKit RSS docs - worldKit advocates and understands various flavors of geocoded RSS; particularly the "geo" namespace.
- USGS earthquake feed - most widely used geocoded RSS feed
- Polygons and lines in polygons - A simple format for expressing polygons and lines is defined for worldKit
Address2Coordinates
Both of these systems are freely available sources of address to lat/long mappings (US only). I think they're based on US Census data, so they might be up to date.
- TIGER
- FIPS
- geocoder
- You can get coordinates from UK post-codes from streetmap
- Worldwide city level location data (over 4 million entries) is available from the GNS. This is accessible as a REST service from the worldkit geocoder
Plazes
Plazes is a system that does geo-info based on the network access point that the user's computer is connected to. They use tagging to identify locations.
Mapping Sites
Semantic Web
- Geosemantics Interest Group
- Open GeoSpatial Consortium
- GeoOnion - a SW vocuabulary for relating items by distance from each other.
- RDFMap
- GeoRDF similar effort to collect prior art, for an effort in interoperability between OGC standards and various lightweight geo formats.