[Talk-GB] Postcode finder based on OSM data

Matt Williams lists at milliams.com
Thu Mar 17 13:48:32 GMT 2011


On 17 March 2011 14:02, Andy Mabbett <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
> P.S. on an individual address's page, such as:
>
>    http://milliams.dev.openstreetmap.org/postcodefinder/house/way/99795053/69/
>
> it would be helpful to add hCard (venue), ADR (address) and GEO
> (coordinates; if shown on the page, which would be good) microformats,
> so that the details can be added easily to electronic address books.
>
>
> The mark up for this change is at:
>
>     http://pastebin.com/fsuZg1C4
>
> More on microformats:
>
>      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microformat
>
> I'm happy to beta-test or assist further.

I had indeed been considering this and so I'm glad that someone else
thinks it would be useful :) The website is already HTML5 and so
extending it with as much semantic markup as possible (whether that's
microformats or microdata or both) can only be a good thing.

-- 
Matt Williams
http://milliams.com



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