- From: Jeremy Keith <jeremy@adactio.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:45:16 +0100
Michelango wrote: > 1. Maps are heavy to get, this means UA should heavily cache and/or it > should own whole maps data (huge!) > 2. If 1) didn't exist because UA can, for instance, get maps data in a > blink of an eye: whose data are we gonna use? > 3. Maps data are often non-free and non-open, reliable maps data are > always non-free and non-open. The second clause of point 3 is demonstrably false. Said demonstration is http://www.openstreetmap.org/ which in many cases (e.g. the town I live in) has better, more up-to-date reliable data than its non-free, non-open counterparts. See also: Wikipedia, blogs, and much of the World Wide Web. (If you hadn't used the word "always", I would have let it slide but I cannot bring myself to let such absolutism go unchallenged) > My 2c... Seeing your 2c and raising you a "citation needed." ;-) But to the point at hand.... Would the @pattern attribute cover the use case of lat/long inputs? (albeit without a nice UI) Jeremy -- Jeremy Keith a d a c t i o http://adactio.com/
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