[uf-discuss] locality sans adr;abbr for state/country etc?

Ryan King ryan at technorati.com
Mon Jan 16 16:07:50 PST 2006


On Jan 16, 2006, at 3:27 PM, admin Yellowikis wrote:

> Latitude and Longitude are a good example of a well established  
> microformat:
>
> Salem, MA = <geo>42 31 17 N 70 53 44 W<geo>

Um, actually, to be pedantic, that point does not represent Salem,  
but some arbitrary point within it. So, converting from Salem to  
those coordinates is actually lossy. I'm sure Kevin has more to say  
about that, though.

-ryan
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