Re: [Wikidata-l] Spatial data definition

2012-04-07 Thread Alexrk
Andreas Trawoeger schrieb am 04.04.2012 15:16: 1. Spatial Reference System Identifier (SRID [1]) definition is missing Introducing a SRID field would also imply to implement coordinate transformation services behind WikiData and most likely would complicate data usability. IMO it is

Re: [Wikidata-l] Spatial data definition

2012-04-06 Thread Markus Krötzsch
Hi Andreas, thanks for the input. I have drafted the current text about geo-related datatypes, but I am far from being an expert in this area. Our mapping expert in Wikidata is Katie (Aude), who has also been working with OpenStreetMap, but further expert input on this topic would be quite

[Wikidata-l] Spatial data definition

2012-04-04 Thread Andreas Trawoeger
Hi everybody! As the guy who has to honor to shortly receive some funding from Wikimedia Germany for handling spatial open government data [0] I would like to make some remarks on the current geo definitions in the Wikidata model: 1. Spatial Reference System Identifier (SRID [1]) definition is