Re: [Uri-review] Re: early draft of a "geo:" URI scheme.

Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> Fri, 02 March 2007 15:43 UTC

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From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
To: Alexander Mayrhofer <axelm-ietf@nona.net>
Subject: Re: [Uri-review] Re: early draft of a "geo:" URI scheme.
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:43:06 +0100
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* Alexander Mayrhofer wrote:
>Consider calculating the spatial distance between two geo: URIs. That would
>not work with, let's say - a "data:" URI, because the semantics are not
>defined (Note to myself: add "distance calculation" to the draft?)

Say you make a application/geo type with the same syntax and semantics
as the proposed scheme. Then it seems you can just do that using e.g.

  data:application/geo,... <-> data:application/geo,...

Other than the additional level of indirection I can see no difference.
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