Big picture it is important to recognize the importance of geodetic datums.
The market leading datum is WGS84 or GPS because it is (1) good enough for
military work, and (2) GPS hardware is everywhere.
Before the space age, geodetic datums were determined by optical
observations forming a
Hi James,
My mistake, I should have linked to
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P1647, which includes the
following in the 'Examples' section of the documentation template:
Note: it is not valid to declare subproperties of instance of (P31)
(rdf:type), subclass of (P279)
For places where precision is required, has anyone given thought to
using Geohash keys rather than lat/lon?
The benefits of geohashing here is that you get both the location and
also the precision values in a single object.
As a secondary benefit, it can be used to index on a database with
more
Country (p17) should be used for a general affiliation. Dublin has a
general affiliation with Ireland.
On the other hand City of Dublin is in the administrative territorial
entity Dublin region which is in the administrative territorial entity
Republic of Ireland which is on the geographical
