AmazingMelaka.com is GPS-Enabled
January 25th, 2008
GPS, which stands for Global Positioning System, is getting more common and popular in our region, thanks to the affordable pricing of GPS-enabled mobile phones and GPS units, as well the comprehensive GPS maps of Malaysia and Singapore contributed by Malsingmaps community.
Just taking my workplace into consideration, about 20% of my colleagues own a GPS device. I’ve also recently joined the troop, by getting the QStarz BT-Q818 GPS receiver to pair with my Sony Ericsson P1i.
I’ve already revised most (not all yet) of the previous posts with relevant GPS coordinate at the last sentence of each post. If you have a GPS device as well, hopefully the GPS coordinate given could ease your routing on the road. However, to those who don’t possess this gadget, I’ll still carry on providing a conventional map.
I’ve been convoying with my colleagues for a few road trips, which were heavily dependent on GPS for our direction. The most challenging one was done in Krabi, a place of total geographic unfamiliarity to us, with a total of 4 cars driving out of the city. Though common sense and some good guesses are needed at times, especially at places with under-developed map features, but still, GPS works great and help a lot in our leisure.
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1. Gary | January 25th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Good news about the GPS co-ordinates. Have you thought about marking them up with the geo microformat? That way you can create links, that will automatically find those co-ordinates on Google Maps, Google Earth, Yahoo Maps etc.
Have a read of the following for more information:
http://microformats.org/wiki/geo (which has lots of related links on it for further information).
The Operator Firefox addon will also show these microformats up, and Firefox 3 has support built-in.
2. Administrator | January 25th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Gary:
Thanks for sharing this great piece of information. I’m excitedly reading up about it now
3. Gary | January 26th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
There’s all sorts of other microformats too. One I’ve recently got into is hreview - it’s a sort of standard markup for reviewing anything, be it a business, place, event, website, movie, book, etc. I’d done a review of your site, and marked it up as a hreview: http://garyjones.co.uk/blog/amazing-melaka-blog/
If you could mark all your various reviews up as well, then a syndication website could scour the net, and collect all reviews that have something to do with “Melaka”, say.
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