Type:Area
From Natural History of Southeast Alaska
Type:Area takes numerical values and units for denoting surface areas.
To allow users to enter values in different units of measurement, this page specifies several custom unit for this datatype:
- 1 m², m2, sqm, square meter, square meters, square metre, square metres
- 0.000001 km², km2, sqkm, square kilometer, square kilometers, square kilometre, square kilometres
- 0.0001 ha, hectare, hectares
- 0.000247105381 acre,acres
- 3.86102158542e-7 miles², sqml, sqmi, sq mi, ml², mi², mi2, square miles
- 1.96051e-15 earths (used for astronomical objects in Property:Surface area)
Editors can add more units and alternative representations. To allow users to enter units in several forms, you add alternate representations separated by commas; for example this datatype supports "squared" using <sup>2</sup> or a Unicode character.
The main unit is the first unit with 1:1 correspondence; for this datatype it is m². In the factbox and inline queries, values display converted into this unit first (unless a property specifies different display units).
