[uf-discuss] geo and named locations

[Charles Iliya Krempeaux]

Hello John,

My take on hCard's is that they do NOT have to represent "contact
info".  (Although they can be used for that.)

So using an hCard for the "Eiffel Tower" (as you mentioned in your
example) would be OK.


See ya

On 7/23/06, John Allsopp <john at westciv.com> wrote:
> Charles,
>
> thanks for the reply
>
> > You don't have to use the whole hCard.  Some Microformats have been
> > extracted from this.
>
> the geo spec says
>
> "If the publisher knows and is publishing the name of the location in
> addition to its geo lat/long, then the publisher MUST use hCard
> instead of just geo to publish the name and geo lat/long of the
> location."
>
> So I'm trying to determine when a named location must use hcard (such
> as when those locations have a name but no address, but more
> generally, when the geop and or adr aren't actually "contact
> information" - for example, the location of the eiffel tower in a
> guidebook (for which of course, the adr certainly works) )
>
> > There's "adr" -- http://microformats.org/wiki/adr -- for just
> > specifying addresses.  And there's "geo" --
> > http://microformats.org/wiki/geo -- for just specifying geo info.
>
> thanks again
>
> john
>
> John Allsopp
>
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