[georss] place names

[Pat Cappelaere]

Allan,

Marc was making a very sensible point which, I believe, would keep it very
simple.  It is worth considering.
Pat.


> From: Allan Doyle <adoyle at eogeo.org>
> Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 08:05:44 -0400
> To: <georss at lists.eogeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [georss] place names
> 
> 
> 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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