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Re: [Sipping-emergency] RE: Civil location syntax validation - wasRE: How to handle Validation failures

Henning Schulzrinne <hgs@cs.columbia.edu> Wed, 29 September 2004 14:11 UTC

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> conversion must be accurate enough to yield a valid civic address, but for
> the purposes of this discussion, a location reported in geo form does not
> need to be validated.

In some cases, it is helpful if the user can easily do a sanity check on 
the geo location. It is useful to know if my current geo location puts 
me, due to some technical error like a big-endian/little-endian snafu or 
a confusion of longitude and latitude, in Africa instead of New York.


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