Chris Kuethe [2006-03-31, 13:11:39]:
> On 3/31/06, Ian Darwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Nikolay Sturm wrote:
> > >
> > > Personally, I am not a big fan of new categories. Last ones (biology and
> > > telephony) were not that successful.
> > >
> > >
> > Yet. :-)
> >
> > But they are better than putting everything that comes along in misc.
> 
> so maybe GIS is a little too narrow, but maybe putting stuff that
> deals with geography, locations, places in "geo"? 5 different earth or
> globe packages in two different categories - why?
> 
> i can understand www/mod_geoip as that's strictly a www module, but
> GeoIP seems like it should live in geo. It takes a key and gives you
> back a value, where the key just happens to look a lot like an IP
> address, and the value has a reasonable chance of being a place on
> earth.
> 
> i'm not sure tools designed for working with information about places
> on earth should belong in astronomy.

indeed, astronomy would not be appropriate.
i think "geography" could be added.

steven

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