For those interested, you can easily generate this code for your location at http://www.geo-tag.de/generator/en.html
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James Morley [log in to unmask]
Website Manager Tel. +44 (0)20 8332 5759
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew www.kew.org
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Frankie Roberto
> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 8:36 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Further to Problem with Google Earth
>
> Kathy Harman wrote:
>
>
> > I'm also really interested in the call for a centralised listing of
> > core data that Jon talked about, so I will be keeping my
> eye out for
> > developments of this type! It could have saved me a lot of time!
> >
>
> I'm not quite sure what is meant by 'centralised' here or how
> that'd work - it's probably just best to expose geo data for
> museums in as many places as possible in as many formats as possible.
>
> Google collates geo data from wherever it can find it, in the
> same way that it builds its regular search index. Only this
> morning, they announced that they're 'blending' in even more
> user-generated data:
> http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/03/will-it-blend-yes.h
tml. The drop-down options on their search also includes 'mapped > web pages' and 'related maps'
>
> One quick way of publishing the location of your museum is to
> include <meta name="geo.position"
> content="50.167958;-97.133185"> in your web pages.
>
> Frankie
>
> --
> Frankie Roberto
> Experience Designer, Rattle
> 0114 2706977
> http://www.rattlecentral.com
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