[whatwg] Geographic hyperlinks

Bjoern Hoehrmann derhoermi at gmx.net
Mon Oct 10 12:34:16 PDT 2011


* Christoph Päper wrote:
>Tantek Çelik:
>> See RFC 5870[1] for a proposed standard geo URI scheme for "geo:" hyperlinks.
>
>I wonder whether this scheme, someday, will be extended to include a
>domain part, e.g. geo:13.4125,103.8667 at mars, or whether we’ll rather get
>a ‘astro:’ scheme.

You can specify the coordinate reference system with the crs paramameter
(the parameter values have to be registered and currently only wgs84 is
a registered value, but it's easy to register other values when needed).
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