RE: Geographic tagging of HTML pages - draft-daviel-html-geo-tag-00.txt

Andrew Daviel (andrew@andrew.triumf.ca)
Fri, 23 Apr 1999 04:42:36 -0700 (PDT)

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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 17:39:17 -0800
From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
To: www-html@w3.org
Subject: RE: Geographic tagging of HTML pages -
draft-daviel-html-geo-tag-00.txt

At 4:11p -0800 04/13/99, David Norris wrote:
>Sounds interesting. What if the resource isn't related to a place on Earth?
>I can see where this would be just as applicable outside the Earth. For
>instance, a resource about Sagan Station, Mars.

Do we have a coordinate system for extraterrestrial (dang that's a hard word
to type!) locations? I don't have any star-mapping software, so I have no
idea if there are any standards for that (I love Star Trek tho'...;).
I wonder how it would handle still-expanding space... <g>

A good place for U.S. folks to find their coordinates is
http://tiger.census.gov/

(with an interesting note on their faq page about GPS and nat'l security...;)

-Walter