How to Geocode Your Blog
I use WordPress, and I use Geo Plugin to annotate my blogs with geographical information (i.e., latitude and longitude). If you look at the page source of my blog, you will discover the following markups in the head section of the HTML code:
<meta name="ICBM" content="39.206133, -076.827537" />
<meta name="DC.title" content="Geospatial Semantic Web Blog" />
<meta name="geo.position" content="39.206133;-076.827537" />
ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile) is a hacker term for defining lat/long values. This term is used by different geospatial application on the Web, e.g., GeoURL ICBM address server and freemap.net
So is there any other way to geocode a blog or a particular location string in a HTML page? Yes, try geo microformat. A nice thing about microformat is that it allows you to add semantic tags to information that already existed on the Web, as oppose to asking you to define a separate version of the semantic information from scratch.
Here is an example how I’ve used geo microformat to annotate Columbia, MD — view the HTML page source.
Do you know Google has patented geocoding? See “Google Awarded Geocoding Patent“
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