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 <raylton.sousa@gmail.com>
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 <denny.vrandecic@wikimedia.de>
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.



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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