On Oct 3, 2006, at 1:17 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ryan
King [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
you don't need to have lat/long to get distance. There are plenty
of services for translating human readable addresses into machine
readable values.
But with much less
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ryan
King [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
I consider lat/long data as opaque metadata, which is likely to fall
victim to the same problems as hidden metadata.
That rather depends on who's maintaining the data, and why.
We should allow those who are capable of being-,
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Chris Casciano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
On Oct 2, 2006, at 6:54 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote:
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Chris Casciano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Or the capacity to describe a polygon...
I call the 80/20 rule into effect here.
Fine, I'm
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Colin
Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
On Oct 2, 2006, at 12:56 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kevin
Marks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Andy, you're missing the point.
No, I'm not.
If
If
That's not a point, that's a conditional
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ryan
King [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
you don't need to have lat/long to get distance. There are plenty of
services for translating human readable addresses into machine
readable values.
But with much less accuracy than lat/ long
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On Oct 2, 2006, at 10:13 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Colin
Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
On Oct 2, 2006, at 12:56 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kevin
Marks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Andy, you're missing the point.
No, I'm not.
If
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Colin
Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Instead of criticizing the structure of his argument, why not reply
to
the content?
Perhaps you missed th fact that I did.
Minimally, at best.
So, first you insinuate that I did not reply to the content, then you
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lachlan Hunt
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Andy Mabbett wrote:
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,
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kevin
Marks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
consider this URL:
http://flickr.com/map/?tag=yankeestadiumfLat=40.828081fLon= -
73.920821zl=7
That's showing a blank page, with just a Flickr header, for me.
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On Oct 3, 2006, at 12:05 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote:
Your pedantry is becoming quite grating.
Someone once wrote that 'Pedant' is what people who care about
accuracy
are called, by people who don't Don't you think that pedantry is
important, when considering matters relating to specifications
You'll need a Flash-compatible browser - their geotagging is
Flash-based at the moment.
(we'd better get HTML-defining and evangelising to convert our Flickr
friends)
On Oct 3, 2006, at 3:10 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kevin
Marks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Colin
Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
There is a great difference between concern for accuracy and pedantry.
If you cannot make that distinction, then well, I honestly don't have
anything more to say to you.
Every cloud has a sliver lining.
I'd appreciate it if
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
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael
MD [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Is there a way to specify the accuracy of latitude/longitude?
Yes - the number of decimal places given.
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In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael
MD [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
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
In message
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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
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,
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,
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
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 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
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