2013/1/17 Alexrk <[email protected]> > 1) Can you explain, what are the motives for putting a dimension value > directly down to the datatype level. I thought this is just another object > property (or qualifier?) like the name, ISO-region, type, source, > acquisition date. > > In order not to loose the Dim-data that is already available from the Wikipedias, and to use this for scaling. It should really only describe the rough dimension. I would expect that a building would still have something like "area" or similar in its own property. Dimension is used for scaling and uncertainty.
> 2) IMO there is potential confusion between dim as the actual objects size > (eg. 20 meter for a building) and dim as a value to control the map scale > for showing this object (eg. 200 meter for a building which is really only > 20 meter). Maybe it would be more clear if this thing is called "map scale" > or the like. > > Yes, maybe "dimension" is not a good term. "scale" could be better, but I can see in the GeoData extension that there was a shift from scale to dim, so I assume they might have reasons for that. I put Max Semenik into the discussion, and hope he can enlighten us a bit on it, since he was working on this for far longer than me. > Alex > > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Benutzer:Alexrk2<http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Alexrk2> > > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l> > -- Project director Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49-30-219 158 26-0 | http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
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