[Geowanking] Location encodings, URL schemes

[Andy Armstrong]

On 17 Feb 2005, at 22:43, Martin May wrote:
> Doesn't sound like a crap idea to me :) I would think that this has 
> been discussed before, too, but I can't find any references to it.
>
> I think that you should go ahead and build a prototype for it (a 
> Firefox extension maybe?).

Yup, good plan. Moving house this weekend so it'll be next week but I 
guess it shouldn't take long.

>  Shouldn't be too difficult. It could have a configuration dialogue 
> that lets you specify what to do with the lat/long (fire up external 
> up and pass in parameters, or go to a URL with the lat/long in the 
> query string). The hard part will be getting people to use it. 
> Standardizing it might help, so maybe you should do a write-up and 
> submit it to the W3C?

I'll do some proof of concept work on it and release that to anyone 
who's interested and then after we've kicked it around for a bit we can 
decide whether we like it or not and then maybe I'll push it a bit 
harder.

-- 
Andy Armstrong, hexten.net