An Optimal Way to Geocode Locations Using Microformats
In the past, I talked about the use of microformats to geocode locations on the Web. Microformats is a new approach that attempts to introduce meaningful markups in the existing HTML pages. In particular, it exploits the use of HTML attribute values.
Norman Walsh has a post that discusses different ways to encode the latitude and longitude information of the Eiffel Tower using microformat.
There is also an interesting comment from Elliotte Rusty Harold that shows how the same information can be encoded in a more optimal representation.
Just be warned. The described approach only works if the end user application (e.g., a browser) knows how to ignore the non-standard HTML tags. Otherwise, it may create problems during the page rendering process.
