Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Re: [Geopriv] [VCARDDAV] The "geo" URI draft

In message <4A2516B6.1040307@viagenie.ca>, Simon Perreault
<simon.perreault@viagenie.ca> writes

>Alexander Mayrhofer wrote:
>> I'm therefore tempted to declare both "other reference systems" and
>> "other bodies besides planet earth" out of scope for the "geo" URI
>
>Just to clarify the potential implications for Andy: vCard's GEO
>property takes as value any URI. The "geo" URI is just one possibility.
>You would be free to define your own URI scheme that would have the
>features you desire. That would imply writing a draft, similarly to the
>draft defining the "geo" URI.

Thank you. Though I could indeed define my own URI scheme, I'm not clear
how that would contribute to global interpretability for people
publishing, or parsing non-WGS84 coordinates.

--
Andy Mabbett
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