Geo

Geo is a microformat used for marking up WGS84 geographical coordinates (latitude;longitude) in (X)HTML. Although termed a "draft" specification, this is a formality, and the format is stable and in use; not least as a sub-set of the published hCalendar and hCard microformat specifications. Use of Geo allows parsing tools (for example other websites, or Firefox's Operator extension) to extract the locations, and display them using some other webs... more

Geo is a microformat used for marking up WGS84 geographical coordinates (latitude;longitude) in (X)HTML. Although termed a "draft" specification, this is a formality, and the format is stable and in use; not least as a sub-set of the published hCalendar and hCard microformat specifications. Use of Geo allows parsing tools (for example other websites, or Firefox's Operator extension) to extract the locations, and display them using some other website or mapping tool, or to load them into a GPS device, index or aggregate them, or convert them into an alternative format. Version 3 of the Firefox browser is expected to include native support for microformats, including Geo. There are two ways to convert ordinary (X)HTML into a geo microformat: Adding three classes. For example the marked-up text: Belvide: 52.686; -2.193 becomes: Belvide: 52.686; -2.193 by adding the class-attribute values "geo", "latitude" and "longitude". This will display and a geo microformat for that location, Belvide... less