In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Chris Casciano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>
>On Oct 2, 2006, at 6:54 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>> polygons, and fewer than 20% are circles.
>>>
>>>
>>> You could outline any territory as a series of geos if the need ever
>>> arose.
>>
>> In other words, "the capacity to describe a polygon".
>
>Totally ignored the point I was trying to make... and that is that
>describing a border - of any shape - by the use of a collection of geo
>coords (at whatever precision) is a totally different task then
>defining an individual point and its precision.
Totally ignored the point I was trying to make... and that is that it
would perhaps be better to have the capacity to describe a polygon.
--
Andy Mabbett
Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.no2id.net/>
Free Our Data: <http://www.freeourdata.org.uk>
_______________________________________________
microformats-discuss mailing list
[email protected]
http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
