Geo Microformat
Geo is a microformats, microformat used for marking up World Geodetic System, WGS84 geographical coordinates (latitude;longitude) in (X)HTML. Although termed a "draft" specification, this is a formality, and the format is stable and in widespread use; not least as a sub-set of the published hCalendar and hCard microformat specifications, neither of which is still a draft. Use of Geo allows parsing tools (for example other websites, or Firefox's Operator (extension), Operator extension) to extract the locations, and display them using some other website or mapping tool, or to load them into a Global Positioning System, GPS device, index or aggregate them, or convert them into an alternative format. Usage *If latitude is present, so must be longitude, and vice versa. *The same number of decimal places should be used in each value, including trailing zeroes.''Must'' and ''should'' are used per the Internet Engineering Task Force, IETF document The Geo microformat is applied usi ...
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