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!
FeedPress also allows you to Geotag your RSS feed. You can copy and paste your latitude and longitude into Feedburner under Optimize – Geotag your feed.
Cool idea – nice implementation. Just where do you find the time!?
Thanks, RoudyBob. My kids are at their Mom’s for Christmas… that leaves bachelor Doug and his computer! I have a lot of projects like this that were started and never finished. It will be a productive week!
OK. This is great. Thank you.
Thanks, Rich!
I always read and thought about it, but never came around doing it. A nice idea and a good tool.
I have been keeping track of Google. Believe it or not, their maps are stil beta. If you want to build an application off of it and have guaranteed up-time, they offer an enterprise licensed version.
I met with quite a few of their team out in Mountain View last year and the love seeing tools like this so I’m not too worried about it. It’s not like I’m going to hit their thresholds with hits!
As for the CSS, I hacked an IE only CSS in there. It’s all good. I know that’s not the best method, but IE sucks so bad that I really don’t put much effort into it anymore. I realize that may be lost viewers… but oh well.
Go Firefox!
Update: I fixed some bugs that were returning some foreign addresses with no data. I still have an issue with returning the city if in Canada but I’m working on it!
Verry cool
Mike from Germany
Very nice!
Feel free to drop by and list your site at http://www.gmapsdirectory.com
Best,
Brian A.
Editor
Gmaps Directory
http://www.gmapsdirectory.com
Thanks, Brian! I just put it up tonight!
Regards,
Doug
Tried it with my address in Norway, and only got a “Sorry” message. For fun I tried entering simply “Norway”. I had to laugh when I got the result 🙂
Thanks! (and no sarcasm there!)
Good for North America, but doe not support UK.
Could use another Geocoder for the UK that works like
http://local.google.co.uk/
works
http://local.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=10+Downing+St,+London,+Greater+London,+SW1A&sll=51.504255,-0.127673&sspn=0.01178,0.054245&ie=UTF8&z=15&ll=51.504442,-0.12763&spn=0.01178,0.054245&om=1&iwloc=addr
Thanks, mapperz… and great site! Do you know of any limitations to utilizing the emad geocoding engine? I may beta test with it to see how it goes. It would also enhance the functionality since I could have users query by a number of ways (phone, etc.)
Limitations are the source is not made clear. But have checked that the data is not crown copyrght (by checking codepoint (postcode data) and address point.
It is about 93% accurate across the UK.
Do you have any example RSS feeds?
Tried adding georss (.xml) to this
http://www.acme.com/GeoRSS/about.htm
Works with BBC Weather RSS
http://feeds.bbc.co.uk/weather/feeds/rss/5day/id/3366.xml
but not
http://mapperz.110mb.com/RSS/mapperz_GeoRSS.xml
mapperz
I believe it was a case sensitivity issue (<gml:Point> vs. <gml:point>). I’ve modified the code so it’s all <gml:Point>
Is is just me or is the KML snippet not updating whenever I’m moving the marker?
Any other than this: great idea and very useful thing. I’m just misusing it heavily for drawing polygon layers (i.e. hand-coding LineString-elements) for some google maps.
Thanks.
Hi ignorant!
Thanks for bringing that to my attention! It’s now fixed! Abuse it all you’d like.
Regards,
Doug
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
Sure, Ryan! I’d be glad to assist you. Check out this post as well on utilizing KML files. It’s also now accessible through the Google API to build your own site with a KML file (for a while it was only available through Google’s mapping page.
Yes, Very nice post. But I don’t like FeedBurner… And What is KML-file?
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!
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?
Thanks Terry!
There is Feedmap. I’ve not seen too much action on the site in quite a while, though.
Cheers!
Doug
Great tool. I used it to learn about mapping. Thanks for your time and work.