Geo (microformat)

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.

[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.

For example, the marked-up text: becomes: by adding the class-attribute values "geo", "latitude" and "longitude".

For example: by adding the class-attribute values "h-geo", "p-latitude", "p-longitude", and "p-altitude".

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.