Type talk:Area

Should have Attribute:Geographic Area and Type:Area
This type in 0.5 supports many kinds of areas and its primary unit is "m²", so it's really a general-purpose SI Type:Area.

We should create Attribute:Geographic area that specifies display units of hectares, sq.km and sq. miles and is based on Type:Area. -- Skierpage 00:04, 19 August 2006 (CEST)

Main Unit
The main unit is km² is not a pretty Solution, because km is not an SI-Unit. Instead it would be better to use "m²" as the basic unit within Type:Area. This is because we don't only want to describe the area of countries.
 * see also: Physical Size in German Wikipedia

-- MovGP0 13:23, 17 March 2006 (CET)
 * This is fixed in 0.5 with the switch to user-defined "corresponds to" conversion factors. -- Skierpage 00:04, 19 August 2006 (CEST)