[uf-discuss] geo and named locations

Tantek Ç elik tantek at cs.stanford.edu
Sun Jul 23 22:23:39 PDT 2006


On 7/23/06 10:09 PM, "John Allsopp" <john at westciv.com> wrote:

> "hCard is a simple, open, distributed format for people, places,
> companies, and other organizations. Although its origins lie in
> vCard, from which it takes its name, practical use has demonstrated
> that a more general format may be required for encoding information
> about places, people or organizations which is not specifically
> contact information."
> 
> (just taking a first stab at that)

An *excellent* first stab.  I like it.  Let me take a crack at editing a bit
and and see if I can update the intro in the spec.

Your perspective on this has been very valuable, as working with hCard as it
has grown bit by bit has made it easy to not notice how much the scope has
evolved.

Thanks for pointing out this discrepancy John, and providing a solution.

Tantek



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