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Re: Forward/backward compatibility

From: Erik Wilde <dret@berkeley.edu>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:43:08 -0800
Message-ID: <491CBB8C.4030802@berkeley.edu>
To: Doug Turner <doug.turner@gmail.com>
CC: "Thomson, Martin" <Martin.Thomson@andrew.com>, Andrei Popescu <andreip@google.com>, Richard Barnes <rbarnes@bbn.com>, public-geolocation <public-geolocation@w3.org>

Doug Turner wrote:
> HI Martin,
> Why can't fixed devices convert their civic address to lat/lon?

at the risk of pointing out the obvious: this seems kind of a backward 
argument to me. instead of accepting valid scenarios where people say 
that they want to use non-lat/long positions and this is how things are 
working now, this argument asks them to use lat/long because that's how 
the API works. but aren't we in a discussion about what people have as 
use cases and scenarios for that API and what it should support?

cheers,

dret.
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