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 accuracy than lat/ long
Granted, when converting from human readable location information via
a geocoding service (or any other data source), the information will
be less accurate and less precise.
But, in the interest of "humans first, machines second" and building
on existing practices, I think it makes sense to avoid introducing
artificially precise data when the human readable information is
sufficient and more likely to be maintained.*
-ryan
* I consider lat/long data as opaque metadata, which is likely to
fall victim to the same problems as hidden metadata.
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