On Oct 2, 2006, at 9:20 PM, Ryan King wrote:
1. Actually, 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.
2. Remember, lat/long is not human first. Lat/long is for machines.
Few people use them (remember, us geeks are exceptional). In most
cases people author with human readable location information, they
only use lat/long to make the machines happy.
This is probably a good time to point out that I made a proxy service
to read URLs with hCards and append geo markup wherever it is missing
and can be found from public geocoding services (currently covering
US and Canada):
<http://microformat.makedatamakesense.com/auto_geo/>
I was hoping to add some more functionality before posting it to the
wiki, but Ryan wrote such a nice explanation of why this is useful.
Here's my geo-lacking hCard mapped on Google using this and Brian's
geo-to-KML service:
<http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http%3A//suda.co.uk/projects/
microformats/geo/get-geo.php%3Ftype%3Dkml%26uri%3Dhttp%253A//
microformat.makedatamakesense.com/auto_geo/%253Furl%253Dhttp%25253A%
25252F%25252Frandomchaos.com%25252Fdocuments%25252F%25253Fsource%
25253Dscott_reynen>
Peace,
Scott
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