With GPS (global positioning system) emerging as the must-have feature of any smart phone and PDA phone, geotagging is becoming a trend in the blogsphere, especially on location-based contents, such as blog posts on food, traveling destination and picture.
Take a look at Makantrip.com; almost every food post is described with GPS coordinate. This is undeniably the most accurate way to identify the geographical location of a dining place.
How A Reader Can Make Sense of GPS Coordinate?
As a reader, if given GPS coordinate of N3 09.469 E101 42.701, how do you make sense of it?
- Go to Google Maps in web browser, and paste N3 09.469 E101 42.701 into the search field
- Execute Google Earth in your computer, and paste N3 09.469 E101 42.701 into the search field (Fly To).
What do you get? Well, if you’ve done it correctly, Google should have interpreted the above mentioned coordinate, and presented you with the location map of one of the most significant landmarks in Malaysia – Petronas Twin Towers.
Make Full Use of Google Maps
The technique shown above, is assuming that a blog reader is slightly internet savvy enough to know the existence of Google Maps, and the usage of GPS coordinate to search for intended location.
Hey… don’t be surprised when you hear comment like this:
“brother… wat N S E W and the dotted numbers… I don understand the location la. You write like this might as well don write la”
Since Google Maps service is freely available, why not we make full use of the facility to further enhance our location-based contents?
Link to Google Maps
Let’s take a look at my food post on Kuala Lipis and Gua Musang. There are a total of 3 GPS coordinates in the post, each to describe Kuala Lipis Jalan Silang, Kuala Lipis Tongkok Hotel and Gua Musang GM Food Garden respectively. Continue reading ‘Enhance Location-Based Contents in Your Blog with Geo Microformat and Google Maps’
