> > Think about it like this. If you were to pick up a map and point out > >roughly where you took some photo of your kids in a park (or whatever) > >and you wanted to pick up a pen and mark the location, you're not going > >to sit there and carefully outline the polygon shape of the park, > >you're going to draw something like an X or a circle to show the rough > >location.
this is something like what I meant.... sort of like "somewhere near there..." ... when someone means a fuzzy blob rather than an exact point and doesn't have the data that would be required to precisely mark it up as a polygon or specify a radius. (polygons could be good for describing an area accurately but I think that is a different thing - I'm talking about cases where the available data is just not precise enough for that kind of thing - and for uses where that level of precision might not be needed) Some people suggested using the number of decimal places. I guess in that case I probably need to make sure I never store lat/long as floating point numbers in case I lose some zeros at the end? _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
