Is Your Site, Blog, or Feed Geotagged?

Dec

23rd

Posted in Blogging, Development, GIS by Douglas Karr at 10:35 pm

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One cool way of finding sites is geographically. I actually found that a friend of mine at work had a blog by locating him on a map. There are a number of web sites out there where you can post your blog’s location or site’s location by it’s geographic coordinates. However, you’ll need to actually add some meta tags to your site to be found.

I’ve been wanting to do this for a while, but there really wasn’t a simple tool out there to build the tags for me… until now! Tonight I’ve launched Address Fix.

The site can be used to clean up addresses, find your latitude and longitude, and automatically generate geotags for your website, blog and/or their RSS feeds.

Here’s a preview:

Just copy and paste the meta tags in the header of your website or blog with your other meta tags. Hope you like it!

Feedburner also allows you to Geotag your RSS feed. You can copy and paste your latitude and longitude into Feedburner under Optimize – Geotag your feed.

Terry Pearson

This is a great tool. It is nice to find an easy to use geotagging tool like this.

I wish there were a directory of sites that use geotagging. Does anybody know of a list?

Douglas Karr

Thanks Terry!

There is Feedmap. I've not seen too much action on the site in quite a while, though.

Cheers!
Doug

Paul Samson

Yes, Very nice post. But I don't like FeedBurner... And What is KML-file?

Douglas Karr

Hi Paul, you can read about KML files in an article I wrote. It's basically a geographic-specific file that's written in eXtensible Markup Language (XML). There's a sample in the post as well!

Ryan Updike

Hello, my name is Ryan Updike. I am doing a Google Earth Project in our Geography Class that works with KML. Would you be able to help us fix or get some of the code just to turn out some of the KML code? We are trying to learn how to code point data as inputs, and then turn an output in xml code. Any advice you could give would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time.

Regards,
Ryan Updike