Fwd: RE: [Geowanking] intro

[Daniel Smith]

Whoops, I meant for my reply to go to the list, not
just one person.  Sorry, my bad.

Daniel


>Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 12:52:05 -0800
>To: "VTP" <ben at vterrain.org>
>From: Daniel Smith <dls at daniel.org>
>Subject: RE: [Geowanking] intro
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>>(http://www.dgeo.org/),
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>Will check it out.
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>>ThereThen says "Implementation of this does not require any change to
>>existing web documents."  Well.... that's literally true, but it does
>>require producing a whole new site layout and filing each document into it
>>own directory.  That's potentially more work than just changing the
>>documents :)
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>Actually, you don't need to produce any new documents, nor
>would you need to change any site layout.
>If you have store a mapping of ThereThen-> real addresses
>into a DB, and then have mod_rewrite take incoming
>requests (via CGI or mod_*) and resolve them back to real
>addresses, you're done.  All that matters to the outside
>world is that you can submit an address, and that it
>resolves to something.
>
>Producing addresses in the first place can be as easy
>as stat()'ing for create/last mod dates on web resources
>(html files, etc.), and pairing with a fixed location for
>the site.  A hunch would be that most folks would
>simply obtain lat/long from their postal code (US, UK, etc.)
>Not real precise, but good enough for many.  Others
>may take the step of hitting mapquest/mapblast etc
>to get their coordinates, or, like me, ask their
>car in the driveway (navigation system gives GPS)
>
>
>>  If it's to find all points
>>that a "close" to a given point, why not just use geodetic distance?
>>
>>Background references: http://vterrain.org/Misc/distance.html
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>Because I'm new to this :-)  I'll check it out.  I'm still
>keen on figuring out the lat/lon corners prob though.
>>
>>P.S. miles?  Eeeeek!  km please!
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>Yep!  And for the optional altitude part of the location
>component, feet or meters...
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>cheers,
>
>Daniel
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>Daniel L. Smith - Sonoma County, CA - AIM: SonomaDaniel