With Lat/Lon provided you really need nothing else of the more refined
place names/numbers anyhow.  Country, State or Province (whatever the
major subcategory is), nearest town or city should be adequate then.
Duplicate town names might exist within a certain region but with Lat
and Lon it's clear as to where each is. County and district type thing
has been suggested but it's a matter of common person to person
description whereas the numerical things are more of a computer input
I guess you could say.
Concentration on the web page which people might have, email
addresses, and a biography (birthdate/birthplace/family/job/hobbies)
seems a priority after Lat/Lon and place names as has been said.
Using non-direct emails doesn't sound too good.  If you can click on a
email link on anyones web page then why not also there too.
Can you manage a web page having editable entries which then get
posted up as they change? Not sure if that means having a cgi or java
to be able to do that if so.
Well, you asked to keep talking  ; )

Bob

Rune S. Johansen <run### [at] inamecom> wrote in message
news:37ebe984@news.povray.org...
> I won't include information about street, street number, and phone
number in
> the form at all.
> The reason I asked for whole address formats was just so I could
increase my
> knowledge about how addresses and thus locations are written in
different
> parts of the world.
>
> Also, The user don't have to include their real name, but can write
a nick
> name, initials, or anything they want.
>
> However, I think e-mail address should be obligatory, but then *all*
other
> fields should be optional. What do you think of that? To avoid spam
it could
> be written like: user "at" provider.com
> Wouldn't that work?
>
> So, I still think the following fields would be sufficient for
describing
> locations:
>
> Country,
> Nearest major city,
> Postal district,
> Postal code/zip code,
> latitude and longitude.
>
> But maybe a field "town" should be added so one could be more
detailed than
> "nearest major city" but less detailed than "zip code/postal code"
and
> "postal district".
>
> There could also be a "state" field for people living in the USA
only.
>
> Keep in mind that all fields should be optional.
>
> Please keep the discussion going!
>
> Greetings,
>
> Rune S. Johansen
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