Blogger.com Supports Geotagging Dec 17, 2008 // 10:55 pm

Geotagging in Blogger.com

Blogger.com will support geotagging feature. You can get this feature on Blogger in draft. If you don’t know what geotagging means, Wikipedia explains:

Geotagging is the process of adding geographical identification metadata to various media such as photographs, video, websites, or RSS feeds and is a form of geospatial metadata. This data usually consists of latitude and longitude coordinates, though it can also include altitude, bearing, accuracy data, and place names.

When posting an entry, we can include geotagging an additional posting info. This can be useful for travel bloggers. Geotagging meta data will be placed in entry footer area. The location is integrated with Google Maps. So, clicking on the given location will go to Google Maps. [See picture]

About finding location, we can use the inline search feature. Just put the location e.g. Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Or, if you want to get more spesific location, we can search using latitude and longitude coordinates. For example: -7.797224,110.368797. The geo location will be included in RSS using GeoRSS. It will make feed readers, map applications and search engines be able to associate your posts with their locations.

Since this feature is still in beta phase (draft), there are some bugs. But, if you only want to test it out, you can do it.

  • http://daus.trala.la/ Daus

    Thanks for the info. Will blog it.

  • http://orangescale.net Thomas Arie

    You’re very welcome, Mas!

  • http://nurudin.jauhari.net/ Jauhari

    Bisa treaded Keren mas ;)

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