Hi Michael, I think that's absolutely right for general address details on web pages or in web based systems. I know a lot of the Telco and DSL provisioning systems I've worked on even have this problem.
But I don't believe that this is the case for the address/geocode database that Google use... BTW: I think my last email got bounced so I'll paste it in here to be safe... Hi Gregor, I just followed the tinyurl link that Andy Mabbett posted to the list which lead to a Google Maps search: http://tinyurl.com/38gbbl Then did a "view selection source" on the address in the left hand panel. Hope that helps... Rob Manson On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 11:42 +1000, Michael MD wrote: > > > > So it appears that none of the address sub-elements are being classified > > at all, just simply poured into the adr td and broken up with br's. > > > > To be parsed they should be wrapped in classified elements like the > > > I'm not surprised at all to see this kind of thing out there. > > There are a lot of cases where people may have freeform text addresses and > wish to mark them up somehow... - especially where there is a lot of > user-entered or legacy data (Google would have plenty of both!) > > There are no reliable automated means of splitting such freeform text into > the seperate elements required by hcard and to expect everyone to manually > re-enter everything is definately asking too much! > > Freeform text addresses might not be good for conversion to hcard/vcard but > can still be very useful to humans! > - it seems obvious to me that people out there (regardless of what anyone > says) will try to stick them in adr somehow! > > Perhaps we do need some way to mark up such addresses so that there could be > export tools that give the user options to split them? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > microformats-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
