On Mar 19, 2009, at 11:12 PM, Richard Barnes wrote: >> I do not think we have any use cases that require comparing >> addresses for equality. We clearly did not for the v1 addressing >> (coords). > > Neither of these statements is really true, if you think about it. <snip> I guess I was thinking that we are not adding operators in the API that allows for comparisons between Coords. And similarly, we do not want to add that to the V2 API. > >> Secondly, we are not designing this API for someone like your or me >> or anyone on this mailing list that can understand thirty+ fields... > > I appreciate the need for simplicity. However, based on the input we > got in GEOPRIV from organizations that deal with addresses in > mission-critical applications (especially NENA, who do 9-1-1 > standards), > the RFC 4119 format is about as simple as the format can be made and > still map sensibly to authoritative address sources, even just in > the US. RIght, the question really is -- is this a use case for the spec we are designing or is this out of scope. DougReceived on Monday, 23 March 2009 17:08:35 UTC
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