Subject: AW: [Geopriv] Re: Language of location types in the registry

From: "Tschofenig, Hannes" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:44:43 +0200

hi andy, 

good to see your opinion about this aspect. 

i do not quite see the purpose of this translation as well. mapping all values to numbers only provides a more efficient encoding. 

please note that these values are not shown to the end user. there is always a user interface between them. 

ciao
hannes

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: [email-masked] 
> [mailto:[email-masked]] Im Auftrag von Andrew Newton
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 17. August 2005 15:55
> An: Tom-PT Taylor
> Cc: GEOPRIV WG
> Betreff: [Geopriv] Re: Language of location types in the registry
> 
> 
> 
> On Aug 17, 2005, at 8:43 AM, Tom-PT Taylor wrote:
> 
> > 2) More realistically, register codes with their meaning rather  
> > than words from the English language.  The rendering of 
> these codes  
> > into the language of the PSAP becomes a matter of the local human  
> > interface.
> 
> Out of curiosity, should we change all the element names in PIDF-LO  
> to numbers as well?  Should we change all the RFC 2822 headers to  
> numbers as well?
> 
> To a computer, there is no difference between localizing the number  
> "123" into "aeropuerto" and localizing the name "airport" to  
> "aeropuerto".  The only reason to use numbers is for the sake of  
> compactness.  However, names are beneficial when diagnosing  
> problems.  As an engineer, which is more readily meaningful to you:  
> "738213" or "watercraft"?  The reason the names are in English is  
> simply because of tradition.  I'm perfectly fine with Henning and  
> Hannes, both German speakers, using their native language for this  
> registry. "Flughafen" is still more meaningful to me than any number.
> 
> -andy
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