{"id":887,"date":"2005-08-09T15:18:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-09T19:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/wp\/2005\/08\/09\/microformats-by-any-name\/"},"modified":"2005-08-09T15:18:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-09T19:18:00","slug":"microformats-by-any-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2005\/08\/microformats-by-any-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Microformats by any name"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t recall where I found this, but here’s a really brain-dead simple\ninterface to Google Maps<\/a>\n(details here<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n

What this is, is a microformat-style, HTML-based declarative front-end onto\nGoogle Maps. Check out this sample code for placing labelled markers;<\/p>\n\n

\n<div class=\"GMapEZ GSmallMapControl GSmallMapTypeControl\"\n    style=\"width: 300px; height: 300px;\">\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=41.092104,-85.144740&spn=0.006130,0.009795&t=k&hl=en\">\n    A<\/b>\n\n  <\/a>\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=40.755580,-73.937988&spn=6.276505,5.552490&hl=en\">\n    B<\/b>\n  <\/a>\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=41.877741,-87.637939&spn=6.169597,5.552490&hl=en\">\n\n    C<\/b>\n  <\/a>\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=33.916013,-118.179932&spn=6.874500,5.552490&hl=en\">\n    D<\/b>\n  <\/a>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/pre>\n\n
So the labels become the content of the anchor element.  Neat.  A better\nmicroformat<\/a>\ndesign might have been to use “ol” (ordered list) with some styling\n(“list-style-type: upper-alpha”) to get the incrementing-letter result\n(at least for that simple case).\nAnd I’m not sure the G* “controls” really fit best in “class” (though nothing\nbetter comes to mind – hmm, what’s good for annotation-like semantics?).  But\nthis is definitely in the spirit of microformats (even if the word isn’t mentioned),\nand very well done.<\/p>\n\n
This approach is going to be huge.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I can’t recall where I found this, but here’s a really brain-dead simple interface to Google Maps (details here). What this is, is a microformat-style, HTML-based declarative front-end onto Google Maps. Check out this sample code for placing labelled markers; <div class=”GMapEZ GSmallMapControl GSmallMapTypeControl” style=”width: 300px; height: 300px;”> <a href=”http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=41.092104,-85.144740&spn=0.006130,0.009795&t=k&hl=en”> A <\/a> <a href=”http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=40.755580,-73.937988&spn=6.276505,5.552490&hl=en”> B […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}