[Sigia-l] Locale and real estate (was Re: notation for locales

[James Aylett]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:41:31PM -0400, Ruth Kaufman wrote:

> So now, full circle, the original question was about notating locale.
> To us web folk, locale may seem like just another data attribute or
> metatag. But in fact, it's a sign of the shape of the world in which
> we live and do business. The tags and attributes we sling aren't
> *just* for findability.

It occurs to me that a lot of what what we've been discussing around
location-specific services and that sort of thing should probably be
called a NEIGHBOURHOOD (neighborhood :-) feature rather than LOCALE.

How you notate neighbourhoods is very much application-dependent (and
may be locale-dependent within that, just for fun).

A thought - no conclusion.

James

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