In the midst of a year of considerable upheaval at Yahoo! (or so it would appear from the outside) their developers continue to impress with cool new stuff. Most recently, Microsearch, an experimental search engine that in addition to traditional search techniques, extracts microformats and other metadata (RDF and RDFa) from pages to help improve […]
All my life I’ve been fascinated with geography and travel - maps, places and the like. In particular the great circle route has been a source of fascination. So, for a while now, the great circle mapper has been a favoured destination, which makes the fact that it no reports places using the GEO microformat […]
I’m not sure whether microformats developed my interest in mapping, or my interest in mapping was one thing which lead me to microformats. I think a little bit of both really. I’ve long been fascinated by maps, places, coordinate systems, projections, the great circle route, stuff like that.
Quick quiz - which is closer to Sydney, […]
Geopress is a newly announced plug in for wordpress, which allows users to quickly and easily embed location information in blog posts. It uses the adr and geo microformats, and all without coding! I’ve not played with it yet, but will definitely be checkking it out soon, as I’ve mashup up quite a few maps […]
I’ve not had time to really take a detailed look at this, but Richard Osinga dropped me a line to let me know abbout Trayle, a travel focussed site, very web 2.0, with a maps (microsoft!) mashup, and user generated reviews, travel blogs and so on. Trayle features “microformats, like geotags, hReview”, and looks like […]
Geo and Flickr photos
Yesterday, Flickr launched geotagging, to much fanfare and excitement. I suspected at the time, and after Brian let me know that they do in fact use the geo microformat, I went investigating, adding a geo location for one of my photos (on Safari, the map interface still is a little clunky)
Here is […]
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