Hi On 30 August 2017 at 22:29, Stas Malyshev <[email protected]> wrote:
> True, but this probably won't be kept up-to-date and most likely would > be useless for Wikidata users since random very precise data can not be > relied on unless there's a guarantee certain set of data (e.g. all > observatories) have the same accuracy and it is kept up-to-date. > Like in all the wiki-world, this should be guaranteed through the reference claim, shouldn't it? > I think we should at least limit it to specified precision (not the case > today) but maybe even more in case precision is too high. I don't think > anything beyond 1m is really useful - please provide use cases if you > think otherwise. > I can't think of anything really useful right now... What I'm afraid of is creating fake grids like it happened in DBpedia with too much rounding (see [1], p. 44/45). Maybe with 1 m precision it won't happen today, but it might in the future for very POI-dense areas.. (might it?) [1] https://zenodo.org/record/55381 <https://zenodo.org/record/55381> Best regards Jan
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