Link Exchanging ... Over the long Christmas weekend I...
I was thinking of how I could provide others visibility on my Google Map. I wanted to control
when things were loaded onto the map but wanted this information available to other map mashups without requiring the linker to recreate the information.
If the linker's page contained the geo data and my mashup read that information I could add it to my database for inclusion into my site. Then if the linker also wanted to be listed on xyz_map_mashup.com their information would already exist and they'd simply have to request their site be added.
I decided to try an approach where I added meta tags containing geo data to my main web site www.usgolfers.com and to another page in my site at www.usgolfers.com/html/seattle.htm. Each link has different geo meta data. I then used the "Crude" utility I created to add this to my database.
Wow, it worked. Mostly. I had a link flag for my main site and one for my seattle page.
Has anybody else expermented with meta tags to provide geo data for mapping? I think the valuble aspect of this is in the re-usability. I could add my seattle.htm link to another site that honored these meta tags and I wouldn't have to re-define
the geo data. Crawlers could test for this data during their crawl and provide this information for map mashups.
If some of you would be so kind to test this I'd appreciate it. If you have a map mashup. I'll build a aquery to provide a subset of link as I receive them.
Thanks,
Richard
