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RE: Why ?

At 07:31 00/01/13 -0600, EXT Eric Crane wrote:
> Could we look at proposing "layers" of location information?  If you look at
> a snail-mail address, there are typically three layers of geographic
> information going from specific to broad.  A location request need not
> necessarily return the completely defined special location down to the
> particle level.

Actually snail-mail address in Japan, China, and Korea (at least) goes from 
broad to specific.  Also we do not use "street" adress.  Instead we use a bl
ock (ward?) address.  This means more than 100 million people use the addres
s system.  (BTW, Japan uses 119 instead of 911 for emergency).  I wish the s
tandards take non-European/Amercian situations into consideration.

Kenji
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