From: James Howison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Nov 7, 2007, at 12:30 AM, Tantek Çelik wrote: > > It doesn't. locality equates to city. this has been true in common > > vCard > > implementations for many years. > > Doesn't that depend on the local meaning of City vs Suburb? ie I think > Suburb makes more sense for Australian cities, where the suburb is a > more specific thing than the city. ie 'Sydney' in an address refers > to a specific part of the whole geographical area more generally known > as Sydney, I think it is just a few post-codes (2000, 2001, 2002?).
The properties for adr come directly from RFC 2426 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2426.txt Here is what RFC 2426 has to say on the matter. The structured type value corresponds, in sequence, to the post office box; the extended address; the street address; the locality (e.g., city); the region (e.g., state or province); the postal code; the country name. I suspect that the names locality and region were picked as internationally there are many ways or indicating an address. The locality doesn't have to be a city, that's just an example that's given in the quote. I'm surprised that this isn't fleshed out in greater detail on the adr page at http://microformats.org/wiki/adr How they can expected to be used is: extended-address - helpful info that may be required, such as Level 5, or Suite 203 street-address extended-address - helpful info that may be required, such as suburb locality - more specific than region region - more specific than country-name country-name In China for example, this is a possible address United Airlines C/D1 Unit, 15th Floor, Tower A, GATEWAY No.18 Xiaguangli, North Road, East Third Ring Chaoyang District Beijing 100027 China A possible structure there is extended-address extended-address extended-address street-name locality region postal-code country-name In America, the state is considered the region, with the locality being whatever helps to further narrow down to the street address itself, whether that be city, or principality, or suburb. If Queens, NY works best in that particular scenario, then go with that. Locality only means more local than region, nothing more. -- Paul Wilkins _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
