Embedding Geographic Information in Web Pages
Saturday, July 14th, 2007
The main project I’m currently working on is a web site about food in the area I live in. It’s currently in testing and I’m quite a bit further behind on fixing it up to the point of opening it to the world than I’d like to be.
One feature that’s important to me to have in it is to mark pages that are associated with restaurants or other food-related organizations with their coordinates.
It turns out that there are several different ways to do this.
I’m currently using META tags in the HEAD section to specify geo.position, like this:
<head>
<meta name="geo.placename" content='Quechee, VT' />
<meta name='geo.position' content='43.645995,-72.416711' />
</head>
There are at least three other ways to do this:
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