Turns out Google Maps are even better when they include Microformats.  This is great news from Google.  Specifically, they are using the hCard microformat.  Very nice!!!

You can get the benefits of microformats for your own maps applications if you change your HTML to contain the necessary hcard classes. In this simple example, we’ve changed the infowindow to contain an hCard formatted address. The code for that is below:

  var html = '<div class="vcard"> <span class="adr">'
             + '<span class="fn n">Googleplex<br />'
             + '<span class="street-address">1300 Amphitheatre Parkway</span><br />'
             + '<span class="locality">Mountain View</span>, '
             + '<abbr class="region" title="California">CA</abbr>'
             + '<span class="postal-code">94043</span>'
             + '</span> </div>';
  map.openInfoWindowHtml(map.getCenter(), html);

Alexander & I gave Tantek & Ryan an update on the hResume stuff we’d been working on, and while we were there we recorded a discussion about hResume and the success of Microformats in general. We’re just about ready to offer a WordPress plugin for hResume and an hResume generator. I also heard today that work has started on an MT plugin as well.

Listen to the podcast:

 

• At the Weblogs Worknotes page
• Download the file (~17 MB .mp3)
• Subscribe to the feed

First Microsoft announced support for Microformats and now Yahoo! is getting on board. If we could only get Google to join in! Officially Yahoo is supporting hReview, hCalendar and hCard.

Hopefully they will adopt the hResume format!

At Syndicate, Jen Consalvo is talking about how the new offering AIM pages bakes in microformat support.  Perhaps they will be interested in helping us advance the discussion and take up of hResume.