I did this for 2 reasons:

1. We have a huge amount of space and I wanted the blog under my control
2. I wanted to take advantage of GeoPress to show my location when writing the blog

GeoPress is something that Ed Parsons has been using for a long time now and to be honest I did not care about using it for the longest time as I like using Live Writer and GeoPress only really was useful for the web-based writing client. That has all changed now and you can tell GeoPress where you are in the world by embedding some meta-data in the post itself which will be interpreted and processed by the GeoPress plugin.

There are a few options:

GEOPRESS _ LOCATION(Location to be Geocoded)

GEOPRESS _ LOCATION(Pre-defined location – defined on the web version)

GEOPRESS _ LOCATION([lat,lon])

I have not decided which one to use as yet but I am thinking of writing a quick plugin to Live Writer that will allow me to search on (using Google), place a push-pin where I am and get a lat, lon back for it.

My other option is to use the GPS built into my phone (AT&T Tilt – great phone!) using a bluetooth connection and get the GPS coords from that. This is less likely as there is no way I will have enough satellites in the buildings where I am likely to be writing a blog entry!

Anyway, that’s really why I switched …. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://john.selkirks.net/?feed=rss2…. I am such a GIS geek it is unbelievable!

GEOPRESS_LOCATION(Home)