Re: [Ecrit] draft-george-ecrit-lamp-post-00]

[Henning Schulzrinne <hgs at cs.columbia.edu>]

Richard,

pole numbers are actually fairly common and don't seem to be  
restricted to a particular country. For example, in New Jersey (where  
I live), towns are so close together that it is often difficult to  
tell which one you are in at the moment. The "insider" recommendation  
is to look at the nearest utility pole; the first two letters  
correspond to the town name (followed by a unique numeric identifier).

Henning

On Feb 25, 2009, at 8:01 PM, Richard Barnes wrote:

> Robins,
>
> Given that your use case may be of a more local than global nature,  
> I wonder if it would be appropriate to instead set a local standard  
> that maps to the global (RFC 5139) standard.  We've been working on  
> a document that has recommendations for how to do that:
> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-geopriv-civic-address-recommendations 
> >
>
> --Richard
>
>
> Robins George wrote:
> > I 'd prefer using the PIDF-LO IANA procedure for adding a new  
> > element for lamp posts.
> > I think that re-using the address code is probably not a  
> > particularly good idea.
> > -robins
> > Karl Heinz Wolf wrote:
> > > Wouldn't the ADDCODE (Additional Code) element be a good place for  
> > > the
> > > lamp number code?
> > >
> > > karl heinz
> > >
> > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Winterbottom, James
> > > <James.Winterbottom at andrew.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > A couple of things.
> > > >
> > > > First this should be posted to geopriv and ecrit.
> > > >
> > > > Secondly, could these not be covered by the LOC and landmark  
> > > > fields?
> > > >
> > > > Cheers
> > > > James
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: ecrit-bounces at ietf.org [mailto:ecrit-bounces at ietf.org] On  
> > > > Behalf
> > > > Of Robins George
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, 25 February 2009 2:24 PM
> > > > To: ECRIT IETF
> > > > Subject: [Ecrit] draft-george-ecrit-lamp-post-00]
> > > >
> > > > Hi All,
> > > >
> > > > I have submitted a draft which describes an extension to civic  
> > > > location
> > > > format and
> > > > adds new element PN (pole number). PN carries utility and lamp post
> > > > number
> > > > information which can identify a civic location.
> > > >
> > > > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-george-ecrit-lamp-post-00
> > > >
> > > > Comments are appreciated.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Robins.
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