geocoding - Make location aware content

geocoding is the process of assigning geographic identifiers latitude/longitude to various content types including websites, photos and podcasts.

geocoding is becoming more and more important especially with the increasing popularity of mobile devices and LBS (Location Based Services)

How to make my content location aware?

Let’s discover the various techniques by encoding Ximda’s office location:
1410 N Haskell Ave. Dallas, TX 75204
Latitude: 32.797643
Longitude: -96.781152

• GeoTagging

  is the process of adding geographical identification metadata to various media such as websites, RSS feeds, or images. This data usually consists of latitude and longitude coordinates, though it can also include altitude, bearing, and place names.

  <meta name="geo.placename" content="Ximda" />
  <meta name="geo.position" content="32.797643;-96.781152" />
  <meta name="geo.region" content="US-TX" />

  you can also add location to websites that supports tagging like flickr and del.icio.us

  geo:lat=32.797643
  geo:long=-96.781152

• Microformats geo

  is a simple format for marking up WGS84 geographic coordinates (latitude; longitude), suitable for embedding in HTML or XHTML, Atom, RSS, and arbitrary XML.

  <div class="geo">Ximda:
   32.797643,
   -96.781152</div>

• geoURL

  is giving your website or blog a geo location by encoding your longitude/latitude or physical location in your website meta tags

• GeoRSS

  adds geographic data to RSS and Atom feeds using Geography Markup Language (GML) or the simplified GeoRSS standards.

  
     	32.797643 -96.781152
  

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