- From: C H <craighubleyca@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 11:33:51 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Carl Reed <creed@opengeospatial.org>, paola.dimaio@gmail.com
- Cc: public-xg-eiif <public-xg-eiif@w3.org>
Overloading the word "location" is dangerous as any modern EMS system will track current location via GPS. A person or vehicle thus has a location in real time and an organization has no location other than its head or satellite office. In time even toe-tags will likely have GPS capability.
Accordingly if using location to mean something more static for a person or vehicle such as its usual office or parking or maintenance location it would be wiser to use more specific names like "parking_location" or "usual_location" (pardon my disdain for the VeryBadNamingConvention).
These are recognizably a physical location on the Earth with coordinates but are also clearly distinguished from the actual physical location of the person, body or vehicle. Which we must assume the system will know.
Received on Friday, 5 September 2008 18:41:05 UTC