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Subject:	Re: LENNI Additions to RSS/Atom spec - preliminary proposal
Newsgroups:	lugnet.publish
Date:	Wed, 1 Sep 2004 18:19:58 GMT
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"Dan Boger" <dan@peeron.com> wrote in message news:20040901134145.GJ28958@peeron.com... > I've really fallen for the idea of having lang/lot there. If we can't > have it there, can we perhaps add it in another field? It would make it > SO easy to find how far events are... :) It would indeed, although the task of determining the co-ordinates falls upon the publisher, and it is not that easy a task for the novice. There are postcode/lat-long conversion facilities available on UK mapping sites. Is that true for all countries? Huw

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		Re: LENNI Additions to RSS/Atom spec - preliminary proposal
(...) That's one of my concerns as well. It is a nifty idea, but it's pretty far outside the original scope of the project. Parsing latitude/longitude (and distances between two points) implies a level of complexity well above a simple XML text (...) (20 years ago, 2-Sep-04, to lugnet.publish)

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		Re: LENNI Additions to RSS/Atom spec - preliminary proposal
(...) We could use this format, but it's a little bit harder for computers to parse. Not a big deal, especially for perl (of course :), but maybe we want to go with a more machine-friendly format? 2004-08-30T12:00:00Z This would be the equivilent of (...) (20 years ago, 1-Sep-04, to lugnet.publish)

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