On 18/12/12 16:52, Denny Vrandečić wrote:
Thank you for your comments, Marco.
2012/12/18 Marco Fleckinger <marco.fleckin...@wikipedia.at
<mailto:marco.fleckin...@wikipedia.at>>
IMHO it would be make sense to have something hybrid. The datatype
for geolocation should accept something like a NAN-value for
optional altitudes. But it should also be possible to use altitudes
without longitude and latitude.
Why would it make sense to have both? What is the altitude in the
geolocation good for? Is there an example in Wikipedia where it is or
would be used, and where a property of its own would not be better?
While at it, why not separate longitude and latitude? There are items
that only have one, f.e. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_meridian
IMHO it would make sense to use the [[International System of
Units]] for internal storage. It is not consequently used in other
realms, not even in the German spoken countries (PS vs. kW for
cars). Maybe it would be possible to use small scripts (such as
WP-templates) to transcalc values, which can easily be developed by
the community.
Internally we would translate it, yes, otherwise the numbers would not
be comparable. But for editing we need to keep the unit of the source /
of the editor, or else we will loose precision.
What I wanted to say. Additionally, in some cases historical units are
not accurate or accurately known, so possibly we won't even be able to
make the conversion.
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