The GeoURL ICBM Address Server
GeoURL is a location-to-URL reverse directory. It 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 214,520 sites, indicated by the red dots on the map.
First you need to find your co-ordinates. Coordinates are in the form of a latitude and longitude, separated by a comma, for example: 47.98481,-71.42124. Western hemisphere longitudes and Southern hemisphere latitudes are negative. There are several places on the web to do this and the easiest one I found to use was at Maporama.
Copy and paste the following code into the head section of your page after you change enter your co-ordinates and the name of your blog:
<meta name="ICBM" content="xxx.xxxxx, xxx.xxxxx">
<meta name="DC.title" content="Your weblog title">
Tell the GeoURL server your page needs to be indexed by going to the ping form and entering the URL to your site. In a few minutes they'll index your page and you'll be able to see your neighbours in the blogosphere.
Finally, after you've added your url, GeoURL will give you the code to place a link on your site. There's a few designs to choose from. This code created the link on my sidebar:
<a href="http://geourl.org/near?p=http://www.bestoday.com.au/playground/" title="check out my neighbors in the blogosphere"><img src="http://i.geourl.org/80x15/geourl-tiles.png" alt="GeoURL" border="0" width="80" height="15" /></a>
This is a map indicating where I live in Junee, generated by Maporama when I entered my location details. Using the map you can get directions to anywhere.
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