Tobias Conradi wrote:
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Antoine Leca <Antoine-TZ@leca-marti.org> wrote:
antartica file have slightly different coordinates (46°S 25' 51", 051°W 51'52") which are the ones for Alfred-Faure base, where most (all?) humans are. So maybe a name for the zone that is closer to what the Theory file suggests ----cite----- Keep locations compact. Use cities or small islands, not countries or regions, --------------- is:
Indian/Alfred-Faure I used underline (_) since it was the common use so far.
(AFT is my invention, anything better will be fine with me; TFT, according to widespread use of "<ISO 3166-1 alpha-2>T" ... is already in use for Indian/Kerguelen, and would not be a particularly useful choice here.
I went with Indian/Alfred_Faure since, unlike Indian/Port_aux_Francais, it fits with the 14-character limit.) WP is not consistent, article title is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Faure but in the article it is "Alfred-Faure" I do not know the rules for English Wikipedia titles, so perhaps the title is correct. Alfred-Faure, with hyphen, is the French spelling for the name of the base; without the hyphen it would mean the person, here the meteorologist which ruled the team creating the base 50 years ago.
About coordinates, I agree that seconds are somewhat silly, particularly since there is nobody else hundreds of miles around (1 nautical mile is 1 latitude minute.) Then, obviously there is a typo (was mine, 1997-01-20) about the longitude, which ought be 051°W 51' 25", not 52". Thanks for double-checking that. Antoine