"People use it to store coordinates, names of places, descriptions of
places, etc."  would this not tend to suggest that its usage needs better
defining and expanding or complementing its usage rather then removing it as
not fit ?

Wyn

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Wichert Akkerman <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 08/05/2011 09:34 AM, w.p.w wrote:
>
>> The default location field is useful in some ways and can be called from
>> other objects but is specific to some usecases (Server location,
>> geo-location etc) that said more and more nowadays we find that people want
>> there location to be shown for different sites so including it in the basic
>> metadata is a good idea for a modern system.
>>
>
> A big problem is that the location field has no defined syntax. People use
> it to store coordinates, names of places, descriptions of places, etc. That
> makes it impossible for anything generic to use this field, making it in my
> opinion fit not for a standard (cataloged even) field.
>
> Wichert.
>
>
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