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Re: LENNI Additions to RSS/Atom spec - preliminary proposal
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lugnet.publish
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Wed, 1 Sep 2004 13:59:37 GMT
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On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 01:28:55AM +0000, Kelly McKiernan wrote:
> The most easily-implemented regional listing is the ISO-3166-2
> standard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1 (Click "Local ISO
> codes" next to the country in question). This gets down to the
> state/province level, and while it's not very granular, it is standard
> and kept up to date.
Does this solve the "what's near me" problem? Perhaps there's an API
someplace that will help figure that out?
> So, is there a good enough reason to search for a spec more granular
> than the ISO-3166-2 standard (which is worldwide)? One that would
> outweigh the content creators' pain in implementation?
I figure the same web-app could be written to generate lat/long? Maybe
that's not so easy to do, I haven't looked it up?
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> Huw also recommends breaking the Themes into two parts. Here are a
> couple of questions:
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> 1. Are "LEGO-Defined Themes" and "Broad interest categories" (as two
> examples) mutually exclusive? In other words, would they fit
> together in the same list?
Probably not, imo.
> 2. Is there value to the content provider or content consumer to being
> able to filter by "Micro Scale" AND "Trains"? Or does the fact that
> you can defined two Themes in an item render this moot?
I think so - think CAD and Space, for instance. But yes, if both CAD
and Space are themes, the ability is already provided.
> 3. Would "Interest Grouping" be a better term than "Theme", and could
> that encompass all the types of filtering we've discussed?
The problem with the two lists is that they're of a different type. The
LEGO theme list is a finite list, that we can't allow users to
change/add to on the fly. The other list (CAD, micro, etc) is user
defined, and cannot be limited in the spec. The spec might have ways to
suggest values for that list, but it must allow expansion of it by end
users.
--
Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com
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