Open VladimirAlexiev opened 7 years ago
Shouldnt GeocoordinatesMapping
be enough? Why add a new prop that is merely computed?
Maybe they state road distance not air distance, so cannot be computed. But I agree such props are marginally useful, it's much better to ask a map/routing service.
@maxjakob has made the following atrocity in http://mappings.dbpedia.org/index.php?title=Mapping_en:Infobox_German_state&action=submit:
Why is it an atrocity? Because creating properties that have a specific city in their name is just crazy. Instead we need a separate node that describes the distance between two constant cities: the current resource and the one named in the template property.
It was probably not his fault since the first commit says "copy of Infobox German State but state un-capitalized". Unfortunately the mapping framework is not modular, so any such mistake is copied many times over by different people.
distanceToBelfast is used 6 times. Searching for distanceto* returns 5 such flawed props that are used in 8 templates, but the list is not complete (the mapping wiki search is defective).