Talk:GeoTagging
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[edit] Mergers
There are outstanding merge proposals. Discuss below. -- Robocoder (talk | contribs) 16:33, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Mergefrom Geoblogging
[edit] Mergefrom Geotagged
The geotagged entry in Wikipedia represents a neutral URL that can be used for defining a geotagged tag using the rel=tag microformat. Some tagging systems define tags as simple strings, however Technorati have promoted a microformat for tagging denoted rel=tag. This microformat makes the href of the <a> tag in XHTML the definition of the tag, while the label is just a human readable visual cue.
The Technorati web site provides some examples; for example a tag relating to iPod might be encoded in XHTML as
<a href="http://apple.com/ipod" rel="tag">iPod</a>
whereas a tag relating to gravity might be encoded as
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity" rel="tag">Gravity</a>
If people wish to tag web content so as to indicate that it contains a spatial reference (i.e. that it has been geotagged) then I would propose that they be able to use
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geotagged" rel="tag">geotagged</a>
Currently geotagging is mainly restricted to content (e.g. photos and bookmarks) hosted by social sites (e.g. Flickr and del.icio.us). But if it is to be possible to geotag content that is published individually (e.g. a blog entry) then it should be possible to geotag it using the rel=tag microformat. In turn this would benefit from a neutral URL such as could be offered by Wikipedia. -- 212.44.22.81, 15:57, 3 April 2006
Geotagging is however, unique from geoblogging. Geotagging refers in its name geo (location) and tagging (information). Therefore, you are tagging information onto a location. Sites like Flickr do not accomplish this, and should really be referred to as "photo-geoing," or attaching coordinates to a photograph.
Only sites like http://www.grapheety.com allow a location to be tagged, or blogged about. Hence geoblogging, or geotagging, geoblogging being the superset of geotagging including user information onto a geography in addition to tags.
