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=Geo Extension Straw-Man Proposal= | =Geo Extension Straw-Man Proposal= | ||
Further to proposals for [[luna]] and [[mars]] equivalents to [[geo]], the following is a "straw-man" proposal, to incorporate those ideas (and likewise for other bodies) in order that further debate may take place. Please feel free to critique it harshly but fairly! | Further to proposals for [[luna]] and [[mars]] equivalents to [[geo]], the following is a "straw-man" proposal, to incorporate those ideas (and likewise for other bodies) into geo, in order that further debate may take place. Please feel free to critique it harshly but fairly! | ||
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Revision as of 20:15, 11 December 2006
Geo Extension Straw-Man Proposal
Further to proposals for luna and mars equivalents to geo, the following is a "straw-man" proposal, to incorporate those ideas (and likewise for other bodies) into geo, in order that further debate may take place. Please feel free to critique it harshly but fairly!
Author
Straw-Man
<span class="geo"> <span class="body"> Mars 1 </span> <span class="schema"> [name of mapping schema] 2 </span> <span class="latitude">37.386013</span>, <span class="longitude">-122.082932</span> 3 </span>
Notes
- A list of acceptable, case-insensitive, values for 'body' would need to be drawn up (e/g/ "Earth", "Mars", "Luna", "Venus", etc.) wither "Earth" being assumed if none is specified.
- A list of acceptable values for 'schema' would need to be drawn up, for each body, with one being declared the default, to be used if no value is present.
- As currently with geo, if the "latitude" and "longitude" classes are omitted, the two values MUST be comma separated and latitude MUST be first:
<span class=geo">37.386013,-122.082932</span>
- Also:
- If latitude is present, so MUST be longitude, and vice versa.
- The same number of decimal places SHOULD be used in each value.
Issues
- Should other bodies be included in geo, or have stand-alone microformats?
- What effect will this have on existing 'geo' parsers, and it is safe to ignore that?
- What appropriate schemas exist?
- Lunar: Mean Earth Polar Axis
- ??
- Luna is the scientific name for Earth's moon. Should we use that, or reserve "Moon"?
- Is it appropriate to use the name "geo" (which means "Earth") for other bodies?
- is body an acceptable class name, given that it's also an HTML element?
Comments
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