[Tagging] place nodes for continents?
Warin
61sundowner at gmail.com
Tue Aug 7 09:31:11 UTC 2018
On 07/08/18 19:13, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:
>
>
> On Tuesday, August 7, 2018, Javier Sánchez Portero
> <javiersanp at gmail.com <mailto:javiersanp at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > The same applies to other place nodes like oceans, seas, natural
> bays, straits, etc.
>
> At the risk of forking this discussion to another topic, I'd like to
> point out that at least for oceans and major seas, bays, and straits,
> the International Hydrographic Organization has defined them as
> specific delimited areas.
>
> For continents, nobody could even agree whether to treat North and
> South America as separate continents or as just one continent named
> the Americas. Not to mention whether to call the smallest continent as
> Australia, Australasia, or Oceania. (And let's not forget the
> geological debate about Zealandia.) On a more general note, are we
> talking about continent as a geopolitical entity (Europe vs. Asia), or
> as a geological entity (Eurasia)?
>
> I am in favor of removing these continent nodes. They are "simple" and
> few enough that people who make maps and apps can decide how to treat
> them themselves.
Cough.
Australia has at least 5 different 'centres' depending on how you
calculate it;
Centre of gravity method
Lambert gravitational centre
Furtherest point from the coast
Median point
Johnston Geodetic Station
More detail?
http://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/national-location-information/dimensions/centre-of-australia-states-territories
But "Officially, there is no centre of Australia." So say the experts.
Probably because they cannot reach consensus, sounds familiar :)
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