On 19.12.2012 15:26, Avenue wrote:
> What about the North and South Poles? 

I'm sure standard coordinate systems have a convention for representing them.

> Won't we need lots of units that are not SI units (e.g. base pairs, IQ points,
> Scoville heat units, $ and €) and can't readily be translated into them? Why
> would historical units with unknown conversions pose any more problem than 
> these?

These all pose the same problems, correct. At the moment, I'm very unsure about
how to accommodate these at all. Maybe we can have them as "custom units", which
are fixed for a given property, and can not be converted.

-- daniel

-- 
Daniel Kinzler, Softwarearchitekt
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.


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