Re: Geographic tagging of HTML pages (fwd)

Andrew Daviel (andrew@andrew.triumf.ca)
Fri, 23 Apr 1999 04:46:45 -0700 (PDT)

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Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 10:14:52 -0800
From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
To: www-html@w3.org
Subject: Re: Geographic tagging of HTML pages

At 7:04p -0800 04/13/99, Keith Starling wrote:
>Instead of adding prefixes to the lat. long., why not just add another meta
>tag?
>i.e.
><Meta name="geo.planet" content="planet name">

Except that: doesn't "geo" mean Earth? :) Geography != Cartography
Maybe "loc.heavenlybody"...

-Walter
who thinks it's cool that Pluto weaves into Neptune's orbit
and remembers how 1987's "harmonic convergence" was a dud... ;)

>This doesn't solve the problem of extraterrestrial lat. long., but it seems
>as though there aren't yet enough pages dealing with a specific location on
>another planet to worry about that now. If it becomes an issue, we could
>just specify the name of the place as a country, since they aren't exactly a
>country that exists on Earth in the terms that we are used to.