- From: Andrew Daviel <andrew@andrew.triumf.ca>
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 14:57:50 -0700 (PDT)
- To: WWW-HTML List <www-html@w3.org>
This draft describes a simple method for tagging documents according to geographic position, which may then be used in resource discovery for indexing, and subsequently for simple a geographic search. For a hyperlinked version see http://vancouver-webpages.com/geo/draft-daviel-html-geo-tag-00.html Precis: Documents may be identified with one or more of: <meta name="geo.position" content="longitude,latitude[,elevation]"> <meta name="geo.placename" content="freetext place name"> <meta name="geo.country" content="ISO 3166 2-character country code"> e.g. <meta name="geo.position" content="-128.3,48.5"> <meta name="geo.placename" content="Vancouver, BC"> <meta name="geo.country" content="CA"> Notes: 1. The tags describe the position of the resource described on the page, for instance a beach or restaurant, not the company hosting the page, the company managing the described resource, or the server hosting the page (cf. RFC1876) 2. The tags are described in terms of current HTML practice, which does not preclude them being represented in another manner such as RDF or XML. 3. The tags are intended for use by a wide base of authors who are probably not well versed in GIS or formal metadata techniques. They are not intended to supplant such formal standards as FGDC, GILS, TC211, Dublin Core etc which should be used where appropriate. Geotags homepage is currently http://vancouver-webpages.com/geo/ Andrew Daviel
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