- From: Richard Barnes <rbarnes@bbn.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:30:21 -0500
- To: Doug Turner <doug.turner@gmail.com>
- CC: "Thomson, Martin" <Martin.Thomson@andrew.com>, Andrei Popescu <andreip@google.com>, public-geolocation <public-geolocation@w3.org>
There are lots of cases where converting a civic address to a lat/long/altitude results in silly results. I'm sure Martin has better examples, but here are a few that come to mind: The most obvious one is where the civic address describes a large area, like a state or a county. You can run into this even when the address represents a specific unit of land, like a large farm. Or a large building, like the Merchandise Mart or the Pentagon. (Factoid: The Pentagon takes up 0.004 of a degree of latitude. Merchandise Mart. Both have their own ZIP codes.) My favorite example is tall buildings, where a lat/long/alt gets you to the door and tells you how many meters to go up, but not to which floor. --Richard Doug Turner wrote: > HI Martin, > > Why can't fixed devices convert their civic address to lat/lon? > > Regards, > Doug > > > On Nov 13, 2008, at 2:08 PM, Thomson, Martin wrote: > >> I am of the opinion that the current approach is likely to have the >> opposite effect to what is intended - that is, it will reinforce the >> fragmentation of the "mobile" and "fixed" webs simply because mobile >> devices will have geodetic, fixed devices will not. >
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