ON COORDINATES:
a) what you describe is more specific than a geolocation (which may be
expressed by other means than coordinates). I suggest to give the data
type the more specific name:
geocoordinates
b) with respect to precision: I don't understand the reasoning to
stick this to degrees.
On 08/01/13 12:36, Denny Vrandečić wrote:
Location:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Representing_values#Geolocation
I'm not sure if we should be going that far, but there may be cases
where longitude and latitude are known with different degree of
accuracy, so multiple
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs wrote:
On 08/01/13 12:36, Denny Vrandečić wrote:
Location:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/**wiki/Wikidata/Development/**
On 08.01.2013 14:02, Katie Filbert wrote:
I think it's worth taking a look at what MaxSem has done with the GeoData
extension, which is used for mobile apps, etc.:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GeoData
In this context we should keep in mind that MaxSem and Tomasz are considering
2013/1/8 Gregor Hagedorn g.m.haged...@gmail.com
ON COORDINATES:
a) what you describe is more specific than a geolocation (which may be
expressed by other means than coordinates). I suggest to give the data
type the more specific name:
geocoordinates
Yep, agreed. Or just coordinates.
Thanks to the pointer, Katie. I meant to look into Max' work for a while,
but failed. Now I did and asked him many questions :)
So the biggest difference is that Max uses dim to represent what we mean
here with precision. And dim is somehow related to precision in a
globe dependent way (which is
Hey,
Why use Q2 (earth) as the glob, and not Q215848 (WSG84)? That would be
a lot
clearer, I think.
Since WGS84 implies Earth, this works for Earth. Is such an implication
always present though? What if I want to describe a location on some random
planet - I suspect you'd have to specify some
Hey,
For every globe we would always need a geodesic system.
My concern is not having the geodesic system field. This is fine. My
concern is not having a globe field.
Cheers
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Jeroen De Dauw
http://www.bn2vs.com
Don't panic. Don't be evil.
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geocoordinates
Yep, agreed. Or just coordinates.
yes, probably better without a geo if it shall work for moon or mars as well.
However, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinate_system is far broader
term. But I cannot find a correct superclass term for
Geographic/Selenographic/Martiographic(?)
