Is it possible to read and extract spatial data from a webpage?

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Hi,

I have a query regarding reading and extract the spatial data and poll it to the other site…something like screen scrapping kind of stuff…

is it possible to this? any ideas on doing this?

Please advice

Thanks in advance

Venkat

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There’s the Geo microformat which encodes spatial co-ordinates in web-pages. That can be very easily extracted using basic DOM parsing tools.