The first steps

Well, first things first.
You need some content.

My plan is take the article as 24ways.org on Unobtrusively Mapping Microformats with jQuery and apply it, somehow to Drupal.

One of the sites I worked on is Ireland's running community website at www.runireland.com. My favourite featured in the Events calendar and especially the events map.

I'll use that site to get some content to get going. Every event is tied to a location, so that's my location information sorted. While I'm at it, I'll make sure to take the time of events. I might do someting with the hcalendar microformat down the line.

So how do I store that content?
We'll I'll need to configure a content type in Drupal to hold each event.
Lots of different choices here, and rather than blog about it, the best write-up on the various options currently available is at http://groups.drupal.org/node/7558 .

I chose to go with locationfield module as it was the simplest option. [ Runireland.com uses the event module ].

I also used the date module to store the dates.

So I inputted a few events, and I'm ready to format those.
It's a start.