[Design] blue sky: request for geographic data awareness

[Kaitlin Duck Sherwood]

Here's a "blue sky" (i.e. one that I don't actually expect to get 
into Chandler any time soon) feature request: good handling of 
geographic data, including GPS coordinates.

I'd like to be able to query "show me map locating Dave's house" and 
have Chandler tell me, "I don't know where Dave's house is exactly, 
but I have a map to Joan's house and Dave lives nearby."

For this to work, Joan and Dave have to both have GPS fields linked 
to their address(es); Joan's address also has to have a link to a map.

If Chandler is really clever, it can maintain a database of maps 
culled from arbitrary sources, with information about the location, 
scale, and orientation of the map.  Then it could stitch together 
multiple maps in response to arbitrary geographical requests like
	"show me restaurants within two kilometers"

Alternatively, Chandler could have have hooks for plugging in 
different map vendors' CDs.  (But Chandler still needs some embedded 
understanding of GPS coordinates.)

This is absolutely NOT a "must-have" feature.  However, it *is* 
something that would distinguish Chandler from other PIMs.
-- 
Kaitlin Duck Sherwood
Author of the _Overcome Email Overload_ series, http://www.EmailOverload.com