[Product-Developers] location field on Dexterity based content types

Wichert Akkerman wichert at wiggy.net
Fri Aug 5 07:37:24 UTC 2011


On 08/05/2011 09:34 AM, w.p.w wrote:
> The default location field is useful in some ways and can be called 
> from other objects but is specific to some usecases (Server location, 
> geo-location etc) that said more and more nowadays we find that people 
> want there location to be shown for different sites so including it in 
> the basic metadata is a good idea for a modern system.

A big problem is that the location field has no defined syntax. People 
use it to store coordinates, names of places, descriptions of places, 
etc. That makes it impossible for anything generic to use this field, 
making it in my opinion fit not for a standard (cataloged even) field.

Wichert.



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