I just had a thought which I figured would be appropriate here.

Android and the SDK's support for GPS and location tracking means we can start creating applications using "Location" as a relevant and precise piece of information. What about on the server/website side of things?
A "friend-finder" and other applications to be used amongst mobile devices is great, but what about finding stationary objects like businesses and government services.

Is there any kind of plans or standard in place so that websites can start storing GPS coordinates as meta-data on their website for search engine spiders to find.
That way instead of simply typing in keywords into google/yahoo/etc., you could choose "Find websites near my location" while your out and about with your mobile.

Hello Rolaveric,

there already is such a thing called geo-Tags:



I had hit their page by random, so it seems not really wide-spread, but a really interesting idea
More info: http://geotags.com/geo/geotags2.html

Here is another set of tags used to add your location to the GeoURL ICBM Address Server
( more info ):



Note that ICBM stands for InterContinental Ballisitic Missile

Did that answer you question

Regards,
plusminus

Indeed that does.
Thanks plusminus.
I knew there had to be something like this already out there, I just wasn't aware of any official standard for it.
Here's hoping the search engines are collecting them so we can start using them for android programs.

Hello Raloveric,

as far as I know the "normal" search engines do not use these meta-tags, but the pages above should offer such a service or had offered somewhen ago.
Unfortunately I think that these services are somehow "dead" as the pages look pretty old and partially do not respond.

Regards,
plusminus