[ckan-discuss] Conventions for Location related extras (Was Geographic Metadata)

Tue May 31 23:30:17 BST 2011

Il giorno Tue, 31/05/2011 alle 22.57 +0100, Adrià Mercader ha scritto:
> * location: GeoJSON representation of the extent of the package
> (Polygon or Point) 

Adrià,
if you mean "bounding box" (like the examples seem to imply), then
please call it "bounding box" so that everybody understand that Polygon
is actually a rectangle, and we don't find CKAN filled with 5MB GeoJSON
polygons (and what about the English coastline?!).

About Point: even if the dataset is only about a small village, a Point
is still a poor representation (and it could always be inferred from the
centroid of the Polygon above, if the map needs a point rather than a
polygon).

My 2 geo-¢,
steko

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