[uf-discuss] proposed geo syntax addition (affects hCard) Re: [microformats-discuss] adr and geo microformats finally written up

[Brian Suda]

I just had two immediate thoughts, none of whick really effect this
idea, i just wanted to get them out there documented.

1) The current GEO property has to have sub-properties of
class="latitude" and class="logitude" this is lost if they get moved
into the ABBR title. (which is OK because there is the RFC that
describes the proper way to describe the order etc) so this is really
a non-issue unless there is some hard-core geo-caching folks out there
who think ALTITUDE is a requirement as well? vCard can't handle it, so
i'm not sure what we do in any case....

2) i know awhile ago i brought-up the idea of using a web service to
get the LAT/LONG from an address and adding GEO to a vCard if none was
present. This was rejected because an address is a polygon (your
house/office is not a point in space, but actually a shape on the X/Y
plane) So when we are using the ABBR element to say this point is an
abbreviation of this space, is that correct? I think it is an
acceptable solution.

I have coded-up X2V to handle GEO in <abbr>, it is only running
locally, but in the few tests it is working fine and make sense. By
simply wrapping your class="adr" elements in an <abbr class="geo" ...
adds value (but is it hidding metadata?)

-brian
On 3/4/06, Tantek Çelik <tantek at cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> On 9/23/05 10:00 AM, "Tantek Çelik" <tantek at cs.stanford.edu> wrote:

> But to do this we must specify a syntax for putting both the latitude and
> longitude into the title attribute as the machine-readable-geo-info.
>
> Fortunately, there already is a syntax for that, in vCard RFC2426 3.4.2:
>

> <abbr class="geo" title="37.386013;-122.082932">
>  Mountain View, CA
> </abbr>


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brian suda
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