Wednesday, June 3, 2009

[Geopriv] The "geo" URI draft

In message <p06240814c64c6c0e08eb@[10.227.68.132]>, Ted Hardie
<hardie@qualcomm.com> writes

> Shorn of even the possibility of using new or different datums, I
>think we will
[...]
>the same URI schemes used with different datums (thus introducing
>invisible differences in reference coordinates).
[...]
>having folks use the same URI scheme with different but unmarked datums
>makes me very concerned indeed.

Anecdotally, my experience of seeing other editors on Wikipedia enter
non-WGS84 coordinates into templates intended for WGS84, on numerous
occasions, is that this is what does happen.

--
Andy Mabbett
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