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

[admin Yellowikis]

Lossy yes, but quite good enough to distingush it from the other
Salems around the world. And (most importantly) the other two Salems
in MA.

Paul


On 1/17/06, Ryan King <ryan at technorati.com> wrote:
> 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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