A summary of technologies that make the Geoweb - or better - help contributing location tagged information. Tailored to bloggers.

1. Geoweb
because location matters
Cédric Hüsler
BlogCamp Switzerland
Photo by hira3 Zürich - October 2007

2. BA
SI
+ HTML
C
S
+ Links
Web

3. + Web
BA
SI
C
S
+ Feed (RSS, Atom)
+ Comment
+ Trackback
+ Ping
Blogging

4. + Web
+ Map
+ GeoRSS
+ GeoTag (μF, ICBM, ..)
+ KML/GML
GeoWeb
0 .5

5. 47.37633977916201
8.547770977020264
Don’t Shoot!
Photo by Antti

6. InterContinental Ballistic Missile
<meta name=quot;ICBMquot;
content=quot;47.566, 7.588quot; />
add geo context to a web page by providing coordinates
(aka GeoURL)
Blog Map

7. keep talking...
Photo by NASA

8. GeoRSS
<rss>
<channel>
<georss:point>47.4152 8.5519</georss:point>
<item>
<georss:point>48.135 11.5490</georss:point>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
3 encodings: W3C Geo | Simple | GML Profile
Note to self: show Flickr, Plazes, Blog

9. Plug-in WordPress
and MovableType:
GeoPress
Photo by
a geo blogger
Ben Harris-Roxas

10. Geo Tag
<div class=quot;geoquot;>
<abbr class=quot;latitudequot; title=quot;47.566quot;>N 47° 56.6</abbr>
<abbr class=quot;longitudequot; title=quot;7.588quot;>E 7° 58.8</abbr>
</div>
Used in Microformats: adr and hCard ...... hCalendar
Note to self: show Operator, Map Extension

11. KML
Keyhole Markup Language
GML
Geography Markup Language

12. Geoweb Search
Add your GeoRSS or KML into the sitemap.xml
Ranking?
Determine location from text (when no
coordinates are present)?

13. Location-aware Tools Points > Polygon
Photo by Dom Dada

14. ot it?
G
That’s it
Slides on: keepthebyte.ch
Links on: del.icio.us/keepthebyte/geoweb