On Thursday 24 January 2008 15:55:13 Burke, S (Stephen) wrote:
Paul Millar [mailto:paul.millar@desy.de] said:
Do we want to consider floating-point numbers, too?
The only ones I can think of off-hand are the latitude and longitude, but they possibly need special treatment anyway ... you might perhaps have a percentage as either float or int, but I don't think we actually have at the moment. Generic floating-point, i.e. with an exponent, is probably unlikely, and for other things we usually choose units small enough to use ints.
OK, we should probably leave floating-point numbers for now. For longitude/latitude, should we use (0,0)? This is located off the west cost of Africa: http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?latlongtype=decimal&latitude=0&longitude=0 It would seem a safe bet that no one will build a Grid site there. Would it be OK to add this for longitude,latitude attributes? Cheers, Paul.