Hi Alex Have you tried my Minimap Firefox Addon?? It goes some way to what you were suggesting, in that it stores addresses/placemarks locally in your firefox profile, along with the url from where that address/location was from so that you can geographically browse. All placemarks are displayed in a sidebar map (optionally a fullscreen 'Map Tab' displays all the info) and from this sidebar you can open up the placemarks corresponding url in a new tab.
Although microformats is not in the extension per se, there is an operator script that sends uf addresses or geo to the placemark list (why reinvent the wheel having two extensions parse the same page every time!). For websites not yet uf adr enabled, you just drag and drop the address text onto the sidebar to add. The extension also supports kml links including google MyMaps. http://firefox.spatialviews.com Shameless plug over, Tony -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Faaborg Sent: 01 August 2007 19:31 To: Microformats Discuss; Kevin Marks Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats in Google Maps This is great, I'm really glad to see Google using microformats. Quick question about handing microformatted content back to Google Maps (using Operator, Firefox 3, etc): does your API support currently sending multiple items, and adding them to a particular map listed in My Maps? For instance, this would enable the user to select multiple hCards on a Web site and send them all to one of their maps. Or, to give a more advanced use case: a Web browser could automatically send all encountered hCards, adrs and geos to a map called "Web History." The user could then turn this map on to view all of the pieces of information they recently encountered online geographically. This could be useful when planning a vacation, searching for real estate across multiple Web sites, etc. -Alex On Jul 31, 2007, at 3:37 PM, Kevin Marks wrote: > http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2007/06/microformats-in-google- > maps.html > > Microformats in Google Maps > Tuesday, July 31, 2007 at 4:28:00 PM > Posted by Gregor J. Rothfuss, Maps Team and Kevin Marks, Apps Team > > If you have spent any time in certain corners of the web, you will > have heard of Microformats: Clever uses of HTML that add > machine-readability to everyday web pages while preserving > human-readability. Microformats allow tools to make more sense of your > web pages, while not changing the visual appearance for visitors to > your site one whit. > > Today we're happy to announce that we are adding support for the hCard > microformat to Google Maps results. Why should you care about some > invisible changes to our HTML? By marking up our results with the > hCard microformat, your browser can easily recognize the address and > contact information in the page, and help you transfer it to an > addressbook or phone more easily. Firefox users can install the > Operator or Tails extension; IE or Safari users can use one of these > bookmarklets. [...] _______________________________________________ > microformats-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss This email was received from the INTERNET and scanned by the Government Secure Intranet Anti-Virus service supplied by Cable&Wireless in partnership with MessageLabs. (CCTM Certificate Number 2006/04/0007.) In case of problems, please call your organisation's IT Helpdesk. Communications via the GSi may be automatically logged, monitored and/or recorded for legal purposes. +++++ The Forestry Commission's computer systems may be monitored and communications carried out on them recorded, to secure the effective operation of the system and for other lawful purposes. +++++ The original of this email was scanned for viruses by the Government Secure Intranet (GSi) virus scanning service supplied exclusively by Cable & Wireless in partnership with MessageLabs. On leaving the GSi this email was certified virus-free _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
