Just out of curiosity, how will the GPS co-ordinates differ in the Galileo system from the existing system? I assume that the two can be easily converted back and forth, or that the numbers are the same for both?
If the numbers differ, we should accept both, so the markup should have the ability to distinguish. It'd be a shame if I took my GPS receiver (which uses the existing system) to get a location, but could not enter it. It would be equally a shame if someone took a Galileo system out in a few years and could not easily enter that as well.
--Jimbo
Magnus Manske wrote:
Europe will over the next years install a GPS-like positioning system called Galileo. The German list got a suggestion to include coordinates in the form of [[Geo:-13°23'+45°2'23'']] or similar for locations. A future GPS/Galileo PDA/smartphone could then reverse-lookup what wikipedia has about the current location. (This is kind of a PR gag, but still...)
IMHO that brings us back to the map system we already discussed to death ;-)
Seriously, such markup could link to a special page with multiple functions:
- Show it on a map
- List wikipedia locations nearby
and others I can't think of right now.
Should we a) include such a syntax? b) wait for a "real" map system to emerge, or just do this now and convert later?
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