We have an own datatype planned for shapes, probably something based on the
GeoJSON. The alternative would be just to point out to the respective
entities in OSM, but OSM has a policy against stuff like "historical
country borders" or "geographic range of the long-eared hedgehog", so it is
a good idea to allow that too.

But this will happen a bit later. For now we would only support points.


2013/1/3 Raylton P. Sousa <[email protected]>

> Hi guy!
> The prototype is very good.
> But usually the locations described in wikipedia does not boil down to
> points, they also include polygons (administrative divisions) and lines
> (streets). But due to the inability to easily describe such coordinates
> such description is made using images [1].
> I wonder if it would be possible to also add other geometric elements, as
> is done in other wikis specialized in describing locations.
> Eg:
> * Point: https://scruzwiki.org/map/Santa_Cruz_Hostel
> * Line: https://scruzwiki.org/map/High_Street
> * Polygon: https://scruzwiki.org/map/City_of_Santa_Cruz
>
> Note: Observe editing of such items is quite simple [2], and I consider
> simpler than add coordinates manually ...
> [1] https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Bahia_Municip_Salvador.svg
> [2] https://scruzwiki.org/map/City_of_Santa_Cruz/_edit
>
>
> 2013/1/3 Denny Vrandečić <[email protected]>
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> continuing from last weeks data values discussion, I would like to invite
>> comments on the following prototypes for understanding points of time and
>> points on Earth.
>>
>> <http://simia.net/valueparser/time.html>
>>
>> <http://simia.net/valueparser/coordinate.html>
>>
>> What it currently does not do is:
>> * i18n (it's in the code, but not properly exposed yet)
>> * enable dates like "Date of birth: 437-436 BC"
>>
>> Working on both still, but I'd like to have a first round of feedback.
>>
>> Happy 2013,
>> Denny
>>
>>
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