Geo URI scheme

The geo URI scheme is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force's RFC 5870 (published 8 June 2010)[1] as:

a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) for geographic locations using the 'geo' scheme name. A 'geo' URI identifies a physical location in a two- or three-dimensional coordinate reference system in a compact, simple, human-readable, and protocol-independent way.[1]

The current revision of the vCard specification[2] supports geo URIs in a vCard's "GEO" property, and the GeoSMS standard uses geo URIs for geotagging SMS messages. Android based devices support geo URIs,[3] although that implementation is based on a draft revision of the specification, and supports a different set of URI parameters and query strings.

A geo URI is not to be confused with the former website of GeoURL[4] (which had implemented ICBM addresses).

  1. ^ a b "RFC 5870 - A Uniform Resource Identifier for Geographic Locations (geo URI)". Internet Engineering Task Force. 2010-06-08. Retrieved 9 June 2010.
  2. ^ "RFC 6350 - vCard Format Specification". Internet Engineering Task Force. 2011-08-11. Retrieved 19 Jun 2012.
  3. ^ "Android Intents List". Retrieved 2012-06-19.
  4. ^ "GeoURL (2.0) The GeoURL ICBM Address Server". Geourl.org. Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2011-12-24. GeoURL is a location-to-URL reverse directory. This will allow you to find URLs by their proximity to a given location. Find your neighbor's blog, perhaps, or the web page of the restaurants near you. GeoURL is listing 9,601,000 sites. Add yourself to the database.