Just out of curiosity, how will the GPS co-ordinates differ in the
Galileo system from the existing system? I assume that the two can be
easily converted back and forth, or that the numbers are the same for
both?
If the numbers differ, we should accept both, so the markup should
have the ability to distinguish. It'd be a shame if I took my GPS
receiver (which uses the existing system) to get a location, but could
not enter it. It would be equally a shame if someone took a Galileo
system out in a few years and could not easily enter that as well.
--Jimbo
Magnus Manske wrote:
Europe will over the next years install a GPS-like
positioning system
called Galileo. The German list got a suggestion to include coordinates
in the form of
[[Geo:-13°23'+45°2'23'']]
or similar for locations. A future GPS/Galileo PDA/smartphone could then
reverse-lookup what wikipedia has about the current location. (This is
kind of a PR gag, but still...)
IMHO that brings us back to the map system we already discussed to death
;-)
Seriously, such markup could link to a special page with multiple
functions:
* Show it on a map
* List wikipedia locations nearby
and others I can't think of right now.
Should we
a) include such a syntax?
b) wait for a "real" map system to emerge, or just do this now and
convert later?
Magnus
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