ICBM address
ICBM(intercontinental ballistic missile)addressormissile addressishackerslangfor one'slongitudeandlatitude[1](preferably toseconds-of-arcaccuracy) when placed in asignatureor another publicly available file.
Origin
[edit]The form that used to register a site with theUsenetmappingproject, beforeInternetconnectivity became commonplace for Usenet sites, included a field forlongitudeandlatitude,preferably toseconds-of-arcaccuracy. This was actually used for generating geographically correct maps ofUsenetlinks on a plotter; however, it became traditional to refer to this as one'sICBMaddress or missile address, and some people include it in theirsig blockwith that name.
A typical tag might read "ICBM Address: 36.8274040 N, 108.0204086 W".
Modern use
[edit]Today, using the ICBM method of coordinates is one method ofgeotaggingwebpages or other online material. Some projects parse ICBM address included inwebpagesviameta tags,which can then be used to map out sites added to itsdatabase.
Web page uses of<metaname="ICBM"content="12.345, 67.890">[2]specify the same location as ageo:12.345,67.890URI.
See also
[edit]- Geo URI scheme(the correct Internet standard)
- Schema.org(schema.org/geothe standard for HTML)
- Geographic coordinate system
- LOC record
- Geo (microformat)
- Geotagging
References
[edit]- ^The new hacker's dictionary.Raymond, Eric S. (3rd ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. 1996. p. 253.ISBN9780262680929.OCLC42329393.
{{cite book}}:CS1 maint: others (link) - ^"MetaExtensions".WHATWG Wiki.Retrieved2017-10-27.
External links
[edit]This article is based in part on theJargon File,which is in the public domain.