- From: Doug Turner <doug.turner@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:07:18 -0800
- To: Richard Barnes <rbarnes@bbn.com>
- Cc: Andrei Popescu <andreip@google.com>, "Thomson, Martin" <Martin.Thomson@andrew.com>, Greg Bolsinga <bolsinga@apple.com>, public-geolocation <public-geolocation@w3.org>
On Nov 11, 2008, at 3:55 PM, Richard Barnes wrote: > Do you really mean that every website that does geolocation will > have to provide geodetic location? As I've tried to point out, > there are many situations where it makes more sense to provide > civic, *especially* in contrast to just a lat/long pair. > Yes. Every website that wants to participate in the geolocation enabled web should be able to talk in the universal canonical format -- and that is lat/lon. > IMO, having two options doesn't really count as "fragmentation". > How hard is it two write > if (geodeticExists()) > geo_foo(); > else if (civicExists()) > civic_foo(); > > --Richard Richard, the way this will go down is: if (position.civicAddress.zipcode) // Fill in my store locator else // nothing And many devices will only have a GPS attached without any ability to acquire an address. Doug
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