Re: [uf-discuss] maps, place names and tagging

2006-11-04 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael MD [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I've seen some sites link to Wikipedia pages for city names. Treat that with caution. Consider: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham which is, rightly, about Birmingham, en not Birmingham, Alabama. However, it was,

Re: [uf-discuss] maps, place names and tagging

2006-11-04 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Consider: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham which is, rightly, about Birmingham, en Birmingham, England. Sorry. -- Andy Mabbett Say NO! to compulsory ID Cards: http://www.no2id.net/

Re: [uf-discuss] maps, place names and tagging

2006-11-04 Thread Christopher St John
On 11/3/06, Michael MD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd really like to find out if there are any emerging standards for tags related to place names. ... Wouldn't it be nice if the pages related to place names on Wikipedia (or any site that lots of people might link place names to) had geo markup

Re: [uf-discuss] class=url?

2006-11-04 Thread Siegfried Gipp
Just a question: for what purpose is the class=url as attribute of a link? Example from the hCalendar spec: span class=vevent a class=url href=http://www.web2con.com/; span class=summaryWeb 2.0 Conference/span: abbr class=dtstart title=2005-10-05October 5/abbr- abbr class=dtend

Re: [uf-discuss] class=url?

2006-11-04 Thread Scott Reynen
On Nov 4, 2006, at 1:38 PM, Siegfried Gipp wrote: for what purpose is the class=url as attribute of a link? The href attribute of the a container on the other hand does contain a url. It has to contain a url according to the html and xhtml specifications. Right, so the class=url is

Re: [uf-discuss] class=url?

2006-11-04 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott Reynen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes the URL property takes it's value from the href attribute, not contents of the container. This isn't explained very clearly in the hcalendar description Perhaps you could ask the author of that page to improve it? -- Andy

Re: [uf-discuss] class=url?

2006-11-04 Thread Chris Messina
Scott is correct., and Seigfried's comment is useful and should be reflected on the wiki. The class=url defines the *definitive* URL for the event or hcard. All other anchors are essentially ignored -- in that they represent non-significant or secondary data only (in leiu of the existing

[uf-discuss] Fwd: Timeline and microformats

2006-11-04 Thread Kevin Marks
seen http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/ ? I contacted the author - what's the best existing 'hCalendar to JSON' tool? Begin forwarded message: From: David Huynh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: November 3, 2006 6:54:57 AM PST To: Kevin Marks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Timeline and microformats

Re: [uf-discuss] Fwd: Timeline and microformats

2006-11-04 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kevin Marks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes seen http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/ ? I contacted the author Please also tell them about the species microformat proposal: http://microformats.org/wiki/species which could be used on their dinosaur timeline. Thanks.

Re: [uf-discuss] class=url?

2006-11-04 Thread Siegfried Gipp
Am Samstag, 4. November 2006 23:08 schrieb Chris Messina: It might be useful to use 'alternate' as a class value however. Good idea, since the alternate property is well established. But then, in Scotts example, what does alternate mean? Any url in his example is no alternate for the one and