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
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-----Original Message-----
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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Frankie Roberto
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Sent from: Sheffield Sheffield United Kingdom.
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