directions formats

Per the microformats process, towards the development of a directions microformat, this page documents pre-existing formats for directions.

Formats

• Microsoft itinerary class - in Virtual Earth.
• GPX, the GPS Exchange Format (website, wikipedia) allows representation of "routes" using the rte and rtept elements. rtept allows a cmt (comment) although it is not known whether GPX implementers are using the comments. OSRM is an OpenStreetMap car routing services that exports GPX tracks in this format.

See also

• events/2006-06-13-where-2-bof
• directions
• directions-examples
• directions-brainstorming