RSS Heaven(s) Crossed With Geographical Meta Tags. I can't remember who was looking for this, but Syndic8 shows a scraped RSS feed for the excellent Astronomy Picture of the Day. Thanks to Perceive Designs (aka Eric Vitiello Jr.) for providing it, along with a bunch of weather feeds (including Chicago)! (Note: I'm getting an "channeltitle" error when I try to subscribe to the Chicago feed in Radio's aggregator. Darn.)
Visiting their site also produced a link to the GeoURL ICBM Address Server, a site I hadn't seen before.
"GeoURL is a location-to-URL reverse directory. This will allow you to find URLs by their proximity to a given location. Find your neighbor's blog, perhaps, or the web page of the restaurants near you."
Here's what you do:
- Add meta tags
Add the following meta tags to the <head> section of your web page:
<meta name="ICBM" content="COORDINATES">
<meta name="DC.title" content="THE NAME OF YOUR SITE">
Use the helper to generate your tags if you are in the US.
Coordinates are in the form of a latitude and longitude, separated by a comma, for example: 47.98481,-71.42124. Western hemisphere longitudes and Southern hemisphere latitudes are negative.
We'll also index Geo Tags-style "geo.position" meta tag as per their documentation
- Tell the GeoURL server your page needs to be indexed.
Use the ping form to tell us that your page has been updated.
- Tell others
GeoURL will become more useful as the database grows in size. Tell others about GeoURL by linking to us.
Once you are in the database, you can add a link to show your neighbors:
http://geourl.org/near/?p=http://my.web.site/blog/
So, I'm telling others, and I'm going to try adding the meta tags to my own site. I don't know if this attempt will go anywhere, but it might be an interesting way to identify Prairie Bloggers and other geographically-joined groups somewhere down the road. [The Shifted Librarian]
8:15:25 AM 
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