geouri.org - The "geo:" URI scheme

Description: a Uniform Resource Identifier for geographic locations

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The lightweight “Midori” web browser supports “geo:” URIs natively since version 0.3.6. Here’s the respective release announcement (from May 2011, only discovered now):

http://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce/2011-May/028718.html

The browser extracts latitude and longitude from a geo: URI entered or clicked on, and redirects the user to the respective location on OpenStreetMap .