Denny,
Thanks for this.
Are there ways to structure this geolocation data now to anticipate more 'fluid' uses of it, say 5 or 10 years from now, or beyond, in representing water, or astronomical processes, in something like interactive, realistic models of the earth or the universe, which would also be useful to Wikipedia's developing goals / mission?
Scott
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Gregor Hagedorn g.m.hagedorn@gmail.comwrote:
Now, I don't think we need or want ranges as a data type at all (better
have
separate properties for the beginning and end).
I am afraid this will then put a heavy burden on users to enter, proofread, and output values. Data input becomes dispersed, because the value "18-25 cm length " has to be split and entered separately. You have to write a custom output for each property then, and do all the query logic (> lower, < upper) for each property in each Wikipedia client.
I believe this is something that is healthy to do centrally. I believe the concept of intervals exists because of that.
Gregor
Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l