I also like the concept of the precedence of
<Point> over <address>. This is similar to what we have been
exploring for <targetArea> in EDXL-DE 2.0.
-hans
From: McGarry, Donald
P. [mailto:]
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010
7:59 AM
To:
Subject: [emergency-rim] KML
Address
I had an
action item to look up how KML does addresses. Looks like they use free
text for xAL (what we are using). I also thought the RFC for phone
numbers was nice to share as well.
<address>
A string value representing an
unstructured address written as a standard street, city, state address, and/or
as a postal code. You can use the <address> tag to specify the location
of a point instead of using latitude and longitude coordinates. (However, if a
<Point> is provided, it takes precedence over the <address>.) To
find out which locales are supported for this tag in Google Earth, go to
the Google Maps Help.
<xal:AddressDetails>
A structured address, formatted as
xAL, or eXtensible Address Language,
an international standard for address formatting. <xal:AddressDetails> is
used by KML for geocoding in Google Maps only. For details, see the Google Maps API documentation. Currently,
Google Earth does not use this element; use <address> instead. Be
sure to include the namespace for this element in any KML file that uses it:xmlns:xal="urn:oasis:names:tc:ciq:xsdschema:xAL:2.0"
<phoneNumber>
A string value representing a
telephone number. This element is used by Google Maps Mobile only. The industry
standard for Java-enabled cellular phones is RFC2806.
For more information, see http://www.ietf.org/rfc
/rfc2806.txt.
Don
McGarry
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