Google Sitemaps Gains Image Support

The Google Webmaster Central Blog announced that you can use a Sitemaps extension to provide image data to Google. In the Sitemaps file you can specify the following properties of the images; image, location, caption, geographic location, title and license details.

More technical specifications can be seen over here and here is a sample Google gives:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <urlset xmlns="https://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
   xmlns:image="https://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1">
  <url>
    <loc>https://example.com/sample.html</loc>
    <image:image>
        <image:loc>https://example.com/image.jpg</image:loc>
    </image:image>
  </url>
</urlset>