Hi,
i just discovered data errors for negative (western) longitude geo locations on de.dbpedia.org.
western longitude is indicated by negative numbers however the negative sign seems to be missing on many dbpedia entries for de. Values are correct for dbpedia.org
for example:
(sorry had to change link host names because direct linking not allowed in post)
de_dbpedia_org /page/Los_Angeles (incorrect)
georss:point
34.05222222222222 118.0
dbpedia_org/ page/Los_Angeles (correct)
georss:point
34.05 -118.25
de_dbpedia_org /page/San_Francisco (incorrect)
geo:lat
37.779301 (xsd:float)
geo:long
122.000000 (xsd:float)
dbpedia_org /page/San_Francisco (correct)
geo:lat
37.783333 (xsd:float)
geo:long
-122.416664 (xsd:float)
de_dbpedia_org /page/Hawaii (incorrect)
21.311388
157.000000
dbpedia_org /page/Hawaii (correct)
21.311388
-157.796387
de_dbpedia_org /page/Idaho (incorrect)
44.416668
114.000000
This looks like a systematic problem, however there are also correct entries:
de_dbpedia_org /page/Alaska
georss:point
65.0 -151.0
These are just some random examples i came across, guess it should be possible to find out the real scale of this problem with a sparql query?