Re: V2 Discussion

On Nov 14, 2008, at 1:03 AM, Aza wrote:

> The prevalent use case for civic addresses is showing the user's  
> current location in textual form.
>
> Lat/long is not particularly human readable, and there are many  
> times you do not want to use a map-based representation. For  
> instance, Twitter, Pownce, and Facebook have mentioned that they'd  
> like to have the users location (generally at city/zip-code level)  
> included as meta information in the one-line user updates. Lat/long  
> isn't good UX, and it has to be text.

+1

Aza, I don't see your messages get through to the public-geolocation  
list for some reason. Any idea why?

Thanks,
-- Greg