tags 646150 + patch thanks Hi there!
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 06:39:45 +0200, Paul Wise wrote: > [Please CC me in reply] Done. I have started to document this on a wiki page [1], I will wait one more week before sending an RFC to the d-publicity@ mailing list. [1] <http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Events/Policy> > On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 2:24 AM, Luca Capello wrote: >> In the second case, AFAIK the current policy is "CITY, COUNTRY" and it >> has been like this for the events since 1999, with some exceptions like >> "PHYSICAL_LOCATION, CITY, COUNTRY" (with PHYSICAL_LOCATION being the >> building or the institution) or "CITY, STATE, COUNTRY" (especially true >> for some USA locations). > > I would like as much specificity as possible in the location > information, possibly even including GPS co-ordinates of the > reception/start point and or a link to OpenStreetMap or the map > provided by the event organisers if any exists. Fully agreed, if we want as much specificity as possible the PHYSICAL_LOCATION should be included, so the tag would be (information in brackets are optional): [PHYSICAL_LOCATION,] CITY [(STATE_ABBREVIATED)], COUNTRY, GPS_COORDINATES However, all these information can cause the line in the event page [2] to be too long. Just imagine for FOSDEM 2007 [3] (discussion about the date format is at #650378 [4]): - [February 24th - 25th] Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting, Brussels, Belgium + [February 24th - 25th] Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting, ULB Campus Solbosh, Brussels, Belgium, +50.812650;+4.380320 + [February 24th - 25th] Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting, ULB Campus Solbosh, Brussels, Belgium, 50.812650 N 4.380320 E + [February 24th - 25th] Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting, ULB Campus Solbosh, Brussels, Belgium, 50°51'0"N 4°21'0"E [2] <http://www.debian.org/events/> [3] <http://www.debian.org/events/2007/0224-fosdem> [4] <http://bugs.debian.org/650378> Here my proposition which I will add to the wiki as well: a) the requirement for the tag is the line above. b) PHYSICAL_LOCATION should be a *single* building or institution, without any comma, so in the example above not "Université Libre de Bruxelles, Campus Solbosh", but "ULB Campus Solbosh". c) GPS_COORDINATES must be present and in a standard form: despite me not being able to find a reference [5], I would say that the form should be 'DEGREES MINUTES SECONDS CARDINAL-DIRECTION' (with symbols instead of spaces). FYI, Wikipedia's city page for Brussels [6] use: * 50°51'0"N 4°21'0"E when in a graphical browser (Iceweasel) * 50°51'0"N 4°21'0"E / 50.85°N 4.35°E / 50.85; 4.35 when in a textual browser (w3m) I do not know which map these coordinates should be linked to either: the one linked to by Wikipedia is GeoHack [7], which seems a good option also because it offers the possibility to create a link with "custom" coordinates [8]. If we should choose a real map, then I will go for OpenStreetMap [9]. [5] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system> [6] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels> [7] <https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/GeoHack> [8] <http://toolserver.org/~geohack/> [9] <http://www.openstreetmap.org/> d) the event page [2] will show only the second and third fields, which means CITY (plus STATE if present) and COUNTRY, while each specific page [3] will have everything. I stop here for today :-) Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca
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