- From: Doug Turner <doug.turner@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:04:48 -0800
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Greg Bolsinga <bolsinga@apple.com>, public-geolocation <public-geolocation@w3.org>
On Nov 13, 2008, at 5:43 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:
>
> On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Greg Bolsinga wrote:
>>
>> In the pizza delivery scenario
>
> Why would pizza delivery use this? Wouldn't pizza delivery sites keep
> asking for an address using an old-fashioned form? I certainly am
> never
> going to trust any software to work out my address for me. I have
> enough
> trouble getting the pizza deliverers to figure out how my address
> maps to
> a physical location, I can't even imagine what a mess software would
> make
> of this problem.
>
> As far as I can tell, of the use cases for geolocation given in the
> spec,
> only the third ("Automatic form-filling") involves an address, and
> frankly
> I'm not convinced that that is a realistic use case.
Discovering which pizza place closest to you works fine with lat/lon
-- the so called "store locator" use case. Mash ups like "show me
what is around my current position" work fine as well:
http://www.meer.net/~dougt/flickr.html
Also updating my current location also works fine:
http://brightkite.com/places/guess
Doug
Received on Friday, 14 November 2008 03:05:29 UTC