I am wondering how to geotag SVG maps.
As GeoLocation can be embedded in XHTML/HTML, and SVG is also XML-based, thus use one of these tricks:
<meta name="ICBM" content="50.167958, -97.133185">
<meta name="geo.position" content="50.167958;-97.133185"\>
<meta name="geo.placename" content="Rockwood Rural"\>
<meta name="geo.region" content="ca-mb"\>
<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#">
<geo:Point>
<geo:lat>55.701</geo:lat>
<geo:long>12.552</geo:long>
</geo:Point>
</rdf:RDF>
<span class="geo">
<span class="latitude">50.167958</span>
<span class="longitude">-97.133185</span>
</span>
For information, I am developing on my spare time a website for commons-based maps peer production: Lmap.org. I would like to embed the Geo-Location within the SVG code => The downloaded SVG maps will already contain all the Geo-Location data.
I think SVG GeoTagging could be interesting for maps and building representation, for instance:
Paris Ring Road (SVG in Public domain)
Greater Vancouver Regional District by TastyCakes on English Wikipedia (Own work) CC-BY-3.0
Eiffel tower by Alexandre JABORSKA on Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
The most advanced reference I found is the Dublin Core DCMI-box.
The 2000's version was something such :
<Box name="Duchess copper mine">
<northlimit>-21.3</northlimit>
<eastlimit>139.9</eastlimit>
<southlimit>-21.4</southlimit>
<westlimit>139.8</westlimit>
<uplimit>400</uplimit>
<downlimit>-100</downlimit>
</Box>
osgeo.org cite the DClite4G scheme :
<dct:spatial>
<Box projection="EPSG:4326" name="Geographic">
<northlimit>34.353</northlimit>
<eastlimit>-96.223</eastlimit>
<southlimit>28.229</southlimit>
<westlimit>-108.44</westlimit>
</Box>
</dct:spatial>
They also have a list of RDF
The 2006 Dublin Core DCMI-box values used with their generator (click on DCMI-box) suggest the XML syntax as follow :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<metadata
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/">
<dcterms:spatial xsi:type="dcterms:Box">
name=france;northlimit=55;
eastlimit=10;
southlimit=44;
westlimit=-5;
projection=ESPXYZ;
</dcterms:spatial>
</metadata>
you can naturally change the units.