Geo (microformat)

For details of Geo used on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Microformats.
A Geo microformat, detected on the Wikipedia page for Great Barr, by Firefox's Operator extension. Users may add alternative mapping sources to those shown, which are included by default.

Geo is a microformat used for marking up geographical coordinates (latitude and longitude) in HTML (or XHTML).[1] Coordinates are expected in angular units of degrees and geodetic datum WGS84.[1] Although termed a "draft" specification, the format is a de facto standard, stable and in widespread use;[2] not least as a sub-set of the published hCalendar[3] and hCard[4] microformat specifications, neither of which is still a draft.[3][4]

Use of Geo allows parsing tools (for example other websites, or Firefox's Operator extension) to extract the locations, and display them using some other website or web mapping tool, or to load them into a GPS device, index or aggregate them, or convert them into an alternative format.

  1. ^ a b "Geo Spec". microformats community. Retrieved 17 August 2010.
  2. ^ "Extending HTML5 — Microformats". HTML5 Doctor. Retrieved 19 August 2010.
  3. ^ a b "hCalendar 1.0 Spec". Microformats community. Retrieved 17 August 2010.
  4. ^ a b "hCard 1.0 Spec". Microformats Community. Retrieved 17 August 2010.