[georss] place names

Allan Doyle adoyle at eogeo.org
Fri Jun 9 08:05:44 EDT 2006


On Jun 9, 2006, at 01:29, Marc wrote:

> Hi Raj
>
>> 2. use full names for town, region and country referenced to some
>> authoritative source
>>
> I would prefer the iso code for country code and region (admin1). With
> full names we have the problem of I18n, even if we find an  
> authoritative
> source (which I doubt).

Well, the taggers would say that it really doesn't matter. There will  
be misspellings anyway and eventually there will be enough material  
that you can find what you want. Googling for Bosten instead of  
Boston still gets you plenty of material about Boston.

>
> Marc

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