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| Meta Tag Name: ICBM |
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Example:
<meta name="ICBM" content="latitude, longitude"> |
Recommendation:
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Other Examples:
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<META name="ICBM" content="26.367559, -80.12172">
<META name="DC.title" content="THE NAME OF YOUR SITE">
Tags used by the GeoURL site, which
is similar to the above GeoTags site. However, the GeoTags META tags
above will also work. (Both geo.position and ICBM work in
A2B.) The DC.title tag is from the
Dublin Core, a set of standardized META tags.
What is geographical data?
Geographical data, for this discussion, is information about the
latitude and longitude of something on the face of planet Earth.
Given a latitude and longitude pair of sufficient precision, a
more-or-less exact spot on Earth can be determined.
What is geographical metadata?
Metadata is data about other data. For Wikitravel, it means
adding information about a page or the subject of that page.
There's an informal standard for representing geographical metadata
in HTML pages, using the <meta> HTML tag. A metatag for latitude and
longitude looks like this:
<meta name="ICBM" content="latitude, longitude">
The "ICBM" name comes from an old Internet joke that a lat-long pair
is an "ICBM address", that is, how you would send an intercontinental
ballistic missile somewhere.
It's unstated whether the ICBM address refers to where the Web server
is located, where the author of the page is located, or where the
subject of the Web page is located. The same tag is used for all these
purposes.
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