[uf-discuss] Correct geo code??

[Farndon, Tony]

Thank you for the reply Frances

Think I will continue to use geo on its own for the moment given the
places have no address. I was wondering if there is any merit in making
the geo class part of the hcard/hcalendar etc as standard. If you are
publishing about a place, lets say a point of interest that doesn't have
an address so needs lat/lng, you could have as a minimum:

<div class="vcard">
<span class="geo">
<span class="latitude">37.123456</span>
<span class="longitude>-122.654321</span>
</span>
</div>

However, upon a little reflection, there could be a real need for geo to
be stand alone in the near future. For example flickr have stated that
they intend to use microformats for their new located photos and more
people are locating blog posts/articles. There could be a use for geo
sub-types to describe the entity that is being located (article,
photo)???

<div class="geo">
<span class="image"><img src="http://example.com" /></span>
<span class="latitude">37.123456</span>
<span class="longitude>-122.654321</span>
</div>


Any thoughts

Tones


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Sent: 05 September 2006 13:18
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Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Correct geo code??

Incidentally, from the geo spec - to cases where you should really not
use geo alone:

"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.

If the publisher knows and is publishing the address of the location, OR
if the address of the location was what was actually entered by a human,
and the publisher simply turned that into lat/long using some sort of a
service, then the publisher SHOULD use adr to publish the actual human
entered address information since that communicates far more semantic
information than a simple geo lat/long coordinate."

On 9/5/06, Frances Berriman <fberriman at gmail.com> wrote:
> There's some examples "in the wild" which use geo alone and it's 
> perfectly fine to do so.
>
> You should check if your use of geo would fit within another format
too though.
>
> On 9/5/06, Farndon, Tony <tony.farndon at forestry.gsi.gov.uk> wrote:
> > Hello Folks
> >
> > I have started to use the geo class microformat, but wondered the 
> > correct way to code it. I get the <span class="geo.... bit, but 
> > wondered whether it needed to be within a hcard/hcalendar etc parent

> > or whether it is acceptable to have the geo span class stand alone.
> >
> > Many thanks, tones
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