Subject: RE: What makes a 'position' useful?

From: "Rosen, Brian" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:15:06 -0400

Hold on.  We are defining, among other things, the format of the data.
There are two generally accepted ways to describe position:
	Datum and distance from datum (lat/lon/altitude for example)
	Planet/country/state/province/city/street/building/floor/room

Both are very important.  You can translate from one to the other
with a database. 

The important part for us is that the format of the data has to
accommodate both.  You also have to allow translators, and thus you
need a field for the translator to mark who it was and what it did.
That is in scope, I believe.

Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randy Bush [mailto:[email-masked]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 2:46 AM
> To: Dante Castiglione
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Subject: Re: What makes a 'position' usefull?
> 
> 
> > Should there exist a standard way for a device to query a 
> server requesting
> > maps and/or data and/or driving directions for an area?
> 
> possibly.  but it's not in the charter of this wg.  how about 
> working on the
> cake before looking at the 10,000 flavors of icing?
> 
> randy
>