Type talk:Box

As mentioned in the Dublin Core external link, the spatial limits of a place can be specified by a set of arcs or faces describing the polygon or polyhedron comprising the perimeter of the place. However it looked like this is not included in the DCMI Box scheme. Perhaps something like that would be good to have though, to be able to better make country borders etc.? A way to do this could be to make a javascript application that can select areas on a map the same way as selecting part of a picture in image manipulation programs like photoshop. The simplest way it could be done I think would probably be to make the javascript app save longitude/latitude for a point when you click it, then when you click a new point save longitude/latitude for that point and what kind of curve to use between those two point, e.g. a simple straight line or an arc. I think bezier curves might be useful for this. This way it could be possible to make any region of interest into an attribute, not only areas that have an article. A lot can be done with the "located in" relation, but I think it could be beneficial to be able to specify exact areas as an attribute. Anyone else have any thoughts on this? Fuelbottle 03:00, 14 November 2005 (CET)


 * The DC is meant to be simple. It just describes rectangular Boxes - but this is more than a simple geo:Point will do. Nevermind, we could use a List of Points to describe a Polygon. But if you need things like Boxes, Polygons, Circles, etc., you need also a program in the Background witch can interpret it. Because this makes a lot of programming effort, it should be out of scope of this project - at least for the first releases. MovGP0 11:25, 14 November 2005 (CET)


 * Maybe this belongs more in wikimaps.Fuelbottle 21:59, 14 November 2005 (CET)


 * I also think like this - the implementation for the most things should indeed rely on later Projects. But we need to be clear about the syntax now. If not, we will have the Problem, that in some years, when semantic Wiki is running we need to change the syntax in an incompatible way - witch won't be good. MovGP0 22:23, 14 November 2005 (CET)


 * I see on the wikimaps talkpage on meta that it been proposed to use GML like in this example GML of the postal code area 53111 in, city of Bonn, Germany to mark an area with a polygon. Fuelbottle 01:23, 15 November 2005 (CET)