OK, point taken. It would be possible to accept "," as a separator at least when it is followed by some space, and to accept ";" in general. I will try to get this working for 1.0.
-- Markus On Dienstag, 16. Oktober 2007, Dan Thomas wrote: > Thanks for the doc updates/template suggestion & I appreciate you entering > this into the bug tracking system. I concur with Sergey's observation that > the proposed format is commonly used. Dan > > > > On 10/16/07, Sergey Chernyshev < > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually, "38.926832, -77.03201" syntax is quite standard for technical > > presentation of geocoordinates. I agree, that it's very American in using > > "." for decimal separator, but it's standard de-facto (for example, > > Google uses it in queries and I use it in GvsY tool in URLs: > > http://www.sergeychernyshev.com/maps.html#49.008084,8.403756 ;) ). > > > > Another alternative is to use ";" as separator (I doubt somebody uses it > > as decimal separator) so the result will be like this: "38,926832; > > -77,03201", but I still think that checking if comma splits into only two > > parts and then using previous example is best. > > > > Sergey > > > > On 10/16/07, S Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dan Thomas wrote: > > > > It seems the degree symbol is required for SMW to recognize a > > > > > > geographic > > > > > > > coordinate. US keyboards typically don't include this symbol making > > > > entry difficult for end users. I suggest supporting lat/long in > > > > positive/negative decimal degrees as an alternative input form. > > > > e.g.; 38.926832, -77.03201 for Washington, DC. > > > > > > You can enter positive/negative decimal degrees in SMW 1.0 RC1, but > > > you're right that you must provide the degree symbol ° or its HTML > > > numeric entity code °. I filed enhancement bug 11679. > > > > > > I updated http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Type:Geographic_coordinate with, I > > > believe, all the supported characters and separators. You could tell > > > users to copy and paste then modify a working format from that page. > > > > > > Changing the code to not requiring a degree symbol is tricky. I think > > > the code needs a degree symbol to give it something to split on. Note > > > that in some languages comma is also a decimal separator > > > (smw_decseparator in the languages file) so you can't split into two > > > parts on comma. Is there some other standard compact format for > > > coordinates? Some tests are at > > > http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_test > > > This isn't a regression from 0.7, it doesn't work there either. > > > > > > As a workaround you could use a template like > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Coord and insert the degree > > > symbols in the semantic annotation it generates. > > > > > > You can't use the character entity reference for degree (°) and > > > some > > > > > > other entities and decimal references for minutes and seconds, which > > > seems an accidental oversight. I came up with a patch to > > > SMW_DV_GeoCoords.php for that. > > > > > > -- > > > =S Page > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >-- > > > > > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > > > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > > > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > > > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Semediawiki-devel mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Semediawiki-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel -- Markus Krötzsch Institut AIFB, Universät Karlsruhe (TH), 76128 Karlsruhe phone +49 (0)721 608 7362 fax +49 (0)721 608 5998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www http://korrekt.org
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