[PDB-tech] facility lat/long

[Job Snijders]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 10:24:16PM +0000, Matt Griswold wrote:
> * Nick Harland <nharland at microsoft.com> [160218 23:08 +0000]:
> > Maybe this has come up before and been shot down for good reason, but
> > why not have a lat/long field for facility records?
> > 
> > It's nice to be able to place things on a map, and relying on the
> > facility address and geocoding only gets me ~70% of sites placed
> > close to where they should be.
>
> It wasn't shot down, it's just pushed until post 2.0 release.

More people showed an interest in having easy access to GPS coordinates.

Bill Norton even suggested to use GPS information to normalise the
addresses using Google's API.

Getting facilities' GPS coordinates in pdb2 would be a nice start indeed.

Kind regards,

Job