Hi guys,
I don't know about Google, but Yahoo expose microformats via BOSS/Searchmonkey and YQL. Here are some YQL examples that grab microformat data from Wikipedia eg. for display on a map.
http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2009/01/wikipedia_w_yql.html
Jim
Jim O'Donnell
Senior Web Developer
National Maritime Museum
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>Sent: 13 March 2009 12:08
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>Subject: Re: Further to Problem with Google Earth
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>Thanks Frankie! Doesn't look too far off, though the map itself
>confused me a bit coz it shows us in the island of a roundabout with a
>couple of bridges going to it, which isn't the reality at
>highwalk level
>(or even ground level). Great to see we're there, though. Looks like a
>cool app, anyway. The XML is fascinating too, a proper description of
>the map. I wonder if it would be possible to run a parallel version of
>OpenStreetMap into which we could load historic streetmaps and
>collaboratively mark them up...
>
>I know Yahoo! was supposedly using some of the microformats, and with
>Tails and Operator out there and who knows what other under-the-radar
>apps using the "API on the page" it's well worth doing, but as
>you say I
>think Google doesn't yet pay much attention.
>
>Cheers, Jeremy
>
>
>
>Jeremy Ottevanger
>Web Developer, Museum Systems Team
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>From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
>Frankie Roberto
>Sent: 13 March 2009 11:52
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>Subject: Re: [MCG] Further to Problem with Google Earth
>
>On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Jeremy Ottevanger wrote:
>
>
>> Incidentally I've just discovered we come nowhere in a map
>search for
>> "Museum of London" (page 2 is no good). We used to, but in
>the recent
>> redesign our location details were dropped from the page
>footer. I had
>
>> used microformats in the address - geotag and vcard - and we were
>> showing up just fine at that point. Whether that was simply down to
>> the address or to Google doing something with the
>microformats I don't
>
>> know, though I think probably the former. It's going back in the
>footer!
>
>
>I think Google uses the fairly fuzzy method of just parsing things that
>look like addresses. But microformats are another great way of exposing
>address and geo data, and using the <address> tag.
>
>Wikipedia also starting to become a great resource for geo-data, as has
>already been mentioned. OpenStreetMap (another fav. project of mine) is
>also becoming a great resource. It thinks Museum of London is here:
>http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/20460698 If that's wrong, feel
>free to edit. :-)
>
>Frankie
>
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