Area (surface measure)
ID area
DatatypeNot PIIDraft
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Size of a surface, such as the area of a parcel, a building, a district or a lake, stored as a number in square metres, hectares or square kilometres, with the unit in the value, the column name (Fläche km², ALAND, oppervlakte_ha) or the metadata. The regular expression recognizes only values that carry one of these unit symbols.
- Parent datatype
- Numeric value
numeric - Categories
- All measurable values (percentage, amount and e.t.c), Common
- Countries
- Global (not tied to a country)
- Languages
- Common to most languages
- Wikidata
- P2046
- Quality
- 90/100 · missing: detector coverage
- Metacrafter rules
- no detection rule yet
- Supported by tools
- no tool record lists this type yet
Regular expression
^\d+(?:[.,]\d+)?\s?(?:mm²|cm²|m²|km²|mm2|cm2|m2|km2|ha|sq\.? ?(?:m|ft|mi|km))$Python re syntax.
Examples
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| 120 m² | Square metres |
| 2,5 ha | Hectares with a decimal comma |
| 35 km2 | Square kilometres written with a 2 |
| 120 m invalid | Unit of length |
| m² invalid | Unit without a number |
Translations
| Language | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| German | Fläche | |
| French | Superficie | |
| Russian | Площадь |
Sources
- wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area
- wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2046
Use this record
- Page URL:
https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/area - JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
- Improve it: edit
data/datatypes/any/values/area.yamlon GitHub