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:* What level of granularity do we need? I used [[Directory:Huntington Beach|Huntington Beach]] for Centiare, but it only provides a general view. [[User:Centiare|Centiare]] 09:29, 7 December 2006 (PST)

:* What level of granularity do we need? I used [[Directory:Huntington Beach|Huntington Beach]] for Centiare, but it only provides a general view. [[User:Centiare|Centiare]] 09:29, 7 December 2006 (PST)

::Personally, I prefer the decimal method of coordinates.  I'll bet that they would work better in the triple-search tool (as one could just enter the coordinate detail as deep as they care to go -- no decimal, a tenth, a hundredth, etc.).  Also, decimal just seems so much more "machine-friendly", and that's the whole point of semantic tagging -- get human labor out of the equation.

::Personally, I prefer the decimal method of coordinates.  I'll bet that they would work better in the triple-search tool (as one could just enter the coordinate detail as deep as they care to go -- no decimal, a tenth, a hundredth, etc.).  I imagine that writing an ASK query for degrees, minutes, and seconds might be a pain in the butt, but writing ASKs for linear, numeric decimals would be a relative cinch.  Positive and negative numbers are also more easy to build a query around than N, S, E, and W.  Also, decimal just seems so much more "machine-friendly", and that's the whole point of semantic tagging -- get human labor out of the equation.

::Granularity, I'm not sure what you mean?  I think each user/editor can be encouraged to get as specific as they are comfortable with.  If a person doesn't want to show which house they live in, they can probably plot the specific coordinates for the center of their neighborhood, or the city hall of their postal address city.  Me, I don't seem to mind pinpointing my house, and it's kind of fun drawing out those decimal coordinates to the fifth or sixth place, to try to nail it. Once you get the [[Directory:Centiare|Centiare]] page changed to decimal coordinates, I will try the Template:Mapit myself on various pages. Looking at the Template now, it seemed a bit intimidating and maybe overkill with all the external mapping options. --[[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 11:17, 7 December 2006 (PST)

::Granularity, I'm not sure what you mean?  I think each user/editor can be encouraged to get as specific as they are comfortable with.  If a person doesn't want to show which house they live in, they can probably plot the specific coordinates for the center of their neighborhood, or the city hall of their postal address city.  Me, I don't seem to mind pinpointing my house, and it's kind of fun drawing out those decimal coordinates to the fifth or sixth place, to try to nail it. Once you get the [[Directory:Centiare|Centiare]] page changed to decimal coordinates, I will try the Template:Mapit myself on various pages. Looking at the Template now, it seemed a bit intimidating and maybe overkill with all the external mapping options. --[[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 11:17, 7 December 2006 (PST)