[georss] place names

[Allan Doyle]

On Jun 9, 2006, at 08:11, Pat Cappelaere wrote:

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

Oh, yes. I'm sorry. I did not mean to say that his point was bad. I  
was thinking out loud about going to the next level for place names.

I fully agree that when we *can* try to assure more consistency it's  
a good thing.

I'll try to slow down a little. Thanks for the nudge.

	Allan

> 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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