Hallo Hannes,
As you can see, XEP-0080 was designed back in 2003-2004. At that time we
looked at some of the other efforts in this space, but they seemed quite
heavy for our needs. Naturally it is quite straightforward to translate
from one format to another on the server/gateway side. I'd be happy to
add translations for GML, too (even PIDF-LO uses a subset of GML, if I
recall correctly). The same goes for the civic location standards, which
are not designed for lightweight communication but instead can describe
any possible address in the world and can get quite complicated. We are
always interested in alignment, but that doesn't always need to occur
via direct use of heavyweight standards over XMPP.
Or so it seems to me. :)
Peter
Hannes Tschofenig wrote:
> It would have been good to align this work with the other location
> based activities that are going on. GML seems to be the main standard
> in this field. For civic location there are also standards to look
> at.
>
> Any interest in alignment?
>
> Ciao Hannes
>
> Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>> Currently, XEP-0080 defines the accuracy of GPS readings in minutes
>> of arc (via the element). Joe Hildebrand and I talked
>> about this recently and decided that it would be preferable to
>> define accuracy in meters, as is done in IMPS (Wireless Village)
>> and other protocols. Therefore we propose to deprecate the
>> element and define a new element.
>>
>> The SVN diff from 1.6rc1 to 1.6rc2 is here:
>>
>> http://svn.xmpp.org:18080/browse/XMPP/trunk/extensions/xep-0080.xml?%40diffMode=u&%40diffWrap=s&r1=2275&r2=2317&u=3&ignore=&k=
>>
>>
>>
>> Or:
>>
>> http://is.gd/3soR
>>
>> You can read the rendered document here:
>>
>> http://xmpp.org/extensions/tmp/xep-0080-1.6.html
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
