Re: VRML Geolocation request

Chris Hand ([email protected])
Thu, 13 Apr 1995 10:39:27 BST


[email protected] said:
> > But I suppose for the time being there's nothing wrong with encoding it
> > as X-Geolocation: 118 24 34 21 34 43 or something, while we're
> > experimenting. I think at this point one should look at Mark Pesce's CP
> > proposal, at <URL:http://hyperreal.com/~mpesce/www.html>.
>
> We could also do this by convention - either establish a relative URL
> latlong.txt
> or putting META data in the specified URL.

The location should be reported by the server, not hard-wired in
a document (I presume you meant the server adds the META data).

Some servers will be *mobile*, wired to GPS boxes.

B-)

Chris

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