<hardie@qualcomm.com> writes
>At 5:28 AM -0700 6/2/09, Richard Barnes wrote:
>>Also, if Martian addresses really become an issue (or even other Terran
>>CRSes), I'm sure we could add a "datum" option whose absence indicates
>>WGS84. Extensibility here is pretty trivial, so I'm inclined to stick
>>with one CRS for now.
Martin coordinates are already published on the web; I gathered some
examples here:
<http://microformats.org/wiki/index.php?title=mars-examples&oldid=32233>
in the context of the "geo" microformat.
>Speaking personally, I think this is the right way to go; URI formats
>can live a long time, and the emergence of other datums for terrestrial
>systems may occur within the lifetime of the scheme. Add an optional
>parameter datum, allow it to take an arbitrary value, and specify that
>its absence means WGS84 and you are done.
That's exactly my proposal.
--
Andy Mabbett
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