As an alternative approach, I would suggest having a single multi-
valued attribute that would contain URIs expressing the location of
the attribute. This would push various issues, such as which
location system is being used, out to the URIs. This is a good thing
as such issues are not unique to LDAP/X.500.
-- Kurt
On Jul 27, 2009, at 10:19 AM, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam...> writes:
Hello. Is there a standardized (or regularly used) attribute
defined for
continents, besides country, st, locality?
Not that I've ever seen. There are a couple of definitions of
longitude/latitude floating about, but nothing for continent.
I wonder, what other geographic ``variables'' (or objects?) have
found their way to LDAP? To put it differently, the (latitude,
longitude) pair describes a point on the Earth's surface. Are
there existing LDAP attributes (or object classes?) that will
allow one to describe more complex ``features'' upon the Earth's
surface, such as, e. g., polygons?
Debian:
attributetype ( 1.3.6.1.4.1.9586.100.4.2.7
NAME 'latitude'
DESC 'latitude coordinate'
EQUALITY caseExactIA5Match
SUBSTR caseExactIA5SubstringsMatch
SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.26 SINGLE-VALUE )
And also:
--cut: http://openosi.org/osi/display/oid/1.3.6.1.4.1.27630.2.1.1.23
--
attributetype ( 1.3.6.1.4.1.27630.2.1.1.23
NAME ( 'osiLatitude' 'latitude' )
DESC 'Latitude in decimal degree notation, negative sign for
South'
EQUALITY caseExactIA5Match
SUBSTR caseExactIA5SubstringsMatch
SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.26
SINGLE-VALUE )
...
SYNONYM OID
* 1.3.6.1.4.1.9586.100.4.2.7 (Debian userdir-ldap.schema)
--cut: http://openosi.org/osi/display/oid/1.3.6.1.4.1.27630.2.1.1.23
--
[...]
GNOME has defined it as well:
attributetype ( 1.3.6.1.4.1.3319.7.7
NAME 'latitude'
DESC 'latitude coordinate'
EQUALITY caseExactIA5Match
SUBSTR caseExactIA5SubstringsMatch
SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.26 SINGLE-VALUE )
Seems to be not used much, as Google lists only two matches for
the OID.
[...]
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