Is there a way to specify the accuracy of latitude/longitude?
Some information (such as data used for street maps) would obviously have to
be as accurate as possible but there would be other cases where it would be
useful to just be able specify that something is in a certain city and
easily
There are several problems with this:
* Service providers usually require you to pay before you can contact
someone you've found or vice versa.
Such sites usually allow you to browse user profiles for free, but expect
you to pay to contact anyone so I think there is probably a need for a way
to
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael
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Is there a way to specify the accuracy of latitude/longitude?
Yes - the number of decimal places given.
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Michael MD wrote:
There are several problems with this:
* Service providers usually require you to pay before you can contact
someone you've found or vice versa.
Such sites usually allow you to browse user profiles for free, but expect
you to pay to contact anyone so I think there is probably
Fixed. Y'all can try it by pasting in the text here [1].
For those not heads down in hAtom, the tricky parts in the sample below are:
- markup inside the Q are supposed to be ignored wrt. hAtom elements
- missing entry-title then should trigger the logic outlined below
- multiple entry-content
On 10/2/06, John Allsopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In an application I developed in 1994-6, Palimpsest you could cut
and paste the links (I called them cross references) and
annotations, which had rich meta data in them. You could tag links
and annotations with labels, links and annotations had
There are formats being discussed for marking up currency. hListing has
the ability to markup prices, although I think it should be free to
contact someone. It would be if we had the ability to list profiles on
our own sites (where we wouldn't be restricted by the contact info we
can
Jeremy Flint wrote:
What is the status of hCal events working in Outlook (testing in 2003)
when fed through the feeds.technorati.com/events url?
Is it something that is do-able or is it a bug in the code at
Technorati? I have noticed that when I use Tails in Firefox, the
events work in
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lachlan Hunt
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There are formats being discussed for marking up currency.
Here:
http://microformats.org/wiki/currency
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I have had a really hard time finding currency examples on the Web using
something else/more than the price class name to qualify currency
amounts (I wish there was a search engine for HTML source code).
Actually, I haven't found any (only one is documented on the
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Guillaume Lebleu
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I have had a really hard time finding currency examples on the Web
using something else/more than the price class name to qualify
currency amounts
How much data was marked up with dtstart, fn or entry-content as a
class
On Oct 2, 2006, at 4:04 AM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
indeed,
imagine next-generation desktop functionality where one could paste
metadata long with content
Mac OS X does that right now, actually. Which is (of course) the whole
idea behind the patent ;)
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andy Mabbett
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Finally (from me, for now), I've had an e-mail from someone wanting to
comment on the species proposal, saying:
I've just tried creating an account on the microformats site so
that I can join in with the
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tantek Çelik
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Semantic XHTML has been widely adopted by the web design and
development community.
Really? Is that widely according to your 80/20 measure?
As was discussed very early in the history of microformats, if there
are hundreds of
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Janes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
- markup inside the Q are supposed to be ignored wrt. hAtom elements
Why is that?
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In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael
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Is there a way to specify the accuracy of latitude/longitude?
Yes - the number of decimal places given.
The question seems a little fuzzy. I assume Michael meant accuracy
of the coordinates, so
I took a look at the semantics used by XBRL for currency amounts (a
standard for corporate financial reporting pushed among others by the SEC).
I have made an adaptation of them in semantic XHTML:
http://microformats.org/wiki/currency-formats#XBRL (without
incorporating existing thoughts on
I'd like to see this microformat integrated into hCard.
(I've just been meeting lots of VCs recently)
Paul
On 10/1/06, Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andy Mabbett
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Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
A center of a city may be fairly accurate, with the
bounds of the city specified as a radius.
Consider Birmingham, England, whose centre is far from being
equidistant to all points on its boundary - it's in Ladywood on this
On Oct 2, 2006, at 12:32 AM, Karl Dubost wrote:
It is irrelevant what some sites may do. What is relevant is
what sites
*actually* do. Do you have any other examples?
Go explore sites in other languages than English, then gather the
results, and you might understand what sites are
On Sep 30, 2006, at 12:39 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ryan
King [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Currently no. Why not just write a script that runs on your side and
programmatically pings the relevant URLs?
Firstly, I don't programme.
I'm sorry, I tend to assume that
Hi all -
For those involved in cite-rel or interested in the area of distributed
conversations (and Eran's cool distributed social anything ideas!), I
have written a few ideas about how SIOC [2] relates to Microformats and
vice versa on my blog [1]...
[1]
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Colin
Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Or the capacity to describe a polygon...
I call the 80/20 rule into effect here.
Fine, I'm confident that more than 80% of countries, counties, towns,
cities, gardens, parks, nature reserves, and industrial estates are
Andy, you're missing the point.
A bare lat-long pair is not always helpful.
If that's all you have, you can't really display a useful map. The
existing mapping tools tend to use product-specific ways of specifying
the degree of zoom needed, to distinguish between the right side of my
desk,
Ryan King wrote:
As far as I know, you're the first person who's asked for this
functionality. I wouldn't mind building it into pingerati if and when
we see some more demand. Until then, it shouldn't be too difficult to
build a tool which will take care of this.
Until then you're all very
On Oct 2, 2006, at 12:35 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andy Mabbett
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Finally (from me, for now), I've had an e-mail from someone
wanting to
comment on the species proposal, saying:
I've just tried creating an account on the
On Oct 2, 2006, at 12:31 AM, Michael MD wrote:
Is there a way to specify the accuracy of latitude/longitude?
I suspect you actually mean 'precision' not 'accuracy', no?
...
I don't think the character of the resource being described is enough.
What do you mean by 'character of the
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Chris Casciano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Or the capacity to describe a polygon...
I call the 80/20 rule into effect here.
Fine, I'm confident that more than 80% of countries, counties, towns,
cities, gardens, parks, nature reserves, and industrial estates are
On Oct 2, 2006, at 4:11 PM, Michael MD wrote:
Not really, if it's a large city...
Consider Birmingham, England, whose centre is far from being
equidistant to all points on its boundary - it's in Ladywood on this
map:
http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/wards
GeoRSS uses a radius element,
Hi John,
Very interesting post, I'm glad to see this topic actively pursued. Here's
my overly details reply - http://hellonline.com/blog/?p=91 (I'm trying to
avoid doing my homework :) I'm pretty sure it's also properly marked up
using cite-rel...
Regards,
Eran.
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On Oct 2, 2006, at 4:24 PM, Kevin Marks wrote:
On Oct 2, 2006, at 3:16 PM, Chris Casciano wrote:
You could outline any territory as a series of geos if the need ever
arose. But I'm still not clear how we've gotten here. If I want to
say something is in Ireland, or Mexico City or somewhere
Scott,
Please ignore my last post on the subject. As Andy M. pointed to me in
another thread, I took an extreme interpretation of the process. Mea
culpa. And sorry in advance for this long post.
On the subject of what is useful to do now with currency, I agree with
you that limiting the
Is there a way to specify the accuracy of latitude/longitude?
I suspect you actually mean 'precision' not 'accuracy', no?
yes pecision is probably closer to what I meant
I don't think the character of the resource being described is enough.
What do you mean by 'character of the
On Oct 2, 2006, at 2:07 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote:
I have had a really hard time finding currency examples on the Web
using something else/more than the price class name to qualify
currency amounts
How much data was marked up with dtstart, fn or entry-content
as a
class name, before
On Oct 2, 2006, at 5:52 PM, Michael MD wrote:
Use adr [http://microformats.org/wiki/adr], or hcard [mfwhttp://
microformats.org/wiki/hcard].
and yes I will use those too, where appropriate..
but to get an idea of how far something is from something else I
would need to use lat/long
On Sep 25, 2006, at 10:03 AM, Jeremy Boggs wrote:
i would be very interested in helping to explore a history
microformat. In my spare time, I've been collecting examples of
history timelines, after discussions a few months ago on this list
about the inability of using hCalendar to mark up
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