Geotagged photograph

A geo-tag is a meta element, which provides information on the current position of many media, such as photos, videos or websites. It usually longitude and latitude are saved, but also additional information such as country, height, or place names are often included. Geotags in both photos (geo - imaging) as well as blogs and other personal sites are very popular.

Construction of geo- tags

The development of geo-tags to XHTML would be composed for the website of the City of Graz, for example, the following lines.

Importance for searches

For location-independent queries the importance of geo-tags is hardly given. On the other hand ( " Pizzeria Berlin" for example) are in the location-based search queries can not be denied the benefits of these tags by hand, especially when you consider that search queries are often site-specific. However, geo- tags are official representations According not evaluated by major search engines like Google. Instead, for example, resorted to the address, industry directories, and similar information referred to in the text of site.

Since 2009, search providers such as Google, Yahoo! and Bing are in a better recognition of the local membership of the seeker and provide (currently a trial basis ) Geo -targeted results, even if no local name has been entered. This example in the Google News results. The geographic breakdown is currently the accomplished step in the evolution of search results. This applies to websites, photos, multimedia, and other documents.

A number of smart-phone apps for augmented reality or the like need the geo- tag information and access therefore back on services, evaluate the geo- tag information.