https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32410

--- Comment #6 from Bawolff <[email protected]> 2012-08-17 12:04:35 UTC ---
I submitted gerrit change 20288 which changes the behaviour just for
GPSAltitude, since some of my other code was assuming it was a normal floating
point number, which caused totally wrong displays when the altitude was below
sea level.


I still feel that things which use the image metadata from MediaWiki should not
make assumptions as to if the data is a rational number or a normal real
number. In the future I do think it should probably be changed to convert all
those fields (except maybe shutter speed) [converting them would be a mild
breaking change in the api, but i doubt anyone would care]. However, even if
that is done, anything using the image metadata from mediawiki would still have
to support both rational numbers and normal decimal numbers, since the metadata
from files stays cached for a long time (years).

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