On Dec 5, 2007, at 9:28 AM, John Panzer wrote:
James O'Donnell wrote:
On 4 Dec 2007, at 07:13, John Panzer wrote:
I've been asked how to handle this case (you have an area, or an
inexact location, and want to encode it while providing a
friendly human readable but possibly ambiguous short hand name
for said place). Is there any existing practices to look at?
Secondly, would this be a valid geo encoding 'abbreviation' ?
<abbr title='22.31119;+89.86145'>the point under my finger right
now</abbr>
The thing about abbreviations is, the expanded text replaces the
shortened form, rather than supplementing it. So I'd guess your
example wouldn't work unless the text 'the point under my finger
right now' could be replaced by '22.31119;+89.86145' and still
make sense when read in its larger context.
<span> is probably a safer element to use for encoding lat/long
positions.
Yes, in context this is really additional annotation, so abbr would
be wrong. Thanks.
But then is title appropriate if using a span?
<span title='22.31119;+89.86145'>the point under my finger right
now</span>.
This won't work with any microformats. The title attribute is only
defined to work on the abbr element.
The adr microformat also works well when you have a named location,
but in some cases we won't. The specific use case is that the
location is automatically generated, e.g., via GPS or other means,
and the author can opt to have it automatically added in to the
content they create. E.g., a photo and caption from a GPS enabled
cellphone.
Honestly I'd recommend that unless you can put the lat/long in a
human-visible spot, just leave it off.
-ryan
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