RE: What makes a 'position' useful?

Hold on. We are defining, among other things, the format of the data.
There are two generally accepted ways to describe position:
        Datum and distance from datum (lat/lon/altitude for example)
        Planet/country/state/province/city/street/building/floor/room

Both are very important. You can translate from one to the other
with a database.

The important part for us is that the format of the data has to
accommodate both. You also have to allow translators, and thus you
need a field for the translator to mark who it was and what it did.
That is in scope, I believe.

Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randy Bush [mailto:randy@psg.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 2:46 AM
> To: Dante Castiglione
> Cc: geopriv@mail.apps.ietf.org
> Subject: Re: What makes a 'position' usefull?
>
>
> > Should there exist a standard way for a device to query a
> server requesting
> > maps and/or data and/or driving directions for an area?
>
> possibly. but it's not in the charter of this wg. how about
> working on the
> cake before looking at the 10,000 flavors of icing?
>
> randy
>
Received on Tue Jul 24 09:14:54 2001