Acceptable coordinate formats
In devel/developers.loc there are three formats for coordinates that
are listed. I suggest we get rid of the second and third as they just
lead to mistakes. I have gone through the map looking for coordinates
that look out of place (*) and a high percentage of them are due to
mistakes in using the dddmmss and dddmm format.
While those formats would not be listed on the page, they would still
be accepted by the db.
(*) Over 60 discovered already. Most are over water. Some are in
places like Somalia. It's annoying when people don't reply and/or fix
them. There is one in Antartica, for example, who lives in the US
(got lat and lon mixed up). While it would be cool to have a DD in
Antartica, it is misleading.
--
James Treacy
treacy@debian.org
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