Re: VRML Geolocation request

Paul Lindner ([email protected])
Wed, 12 Apr 1995 21:15:40 -0500 (CDT)

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Chris Hand sez:
.
. > all you folks building VRML pages. What i need is:
. > 1) the URL for your site
. > 2) The approximate latitude and longitude of the physical
. > location of your site
.
. It would be a trivial extension to the protocol to do this automatically
. (something I often wished was included in HTTP)... the server gives out
. its long/lat on request.
.
. Then you can make these maps automatically.
.

Can we say Gopher+ :-)

Seriously, if you want to map gopher+ servers it would be quite easy.
The top level ADMIN block has an attribute that describes Latitude
and Longitude.

Unfortunately most sites don't know this information or don't care to
put such information in...

Still it would be a good place to start.

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