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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Frankie Roberto
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Sent from: Sheffield Sheffield United Kingdom.
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