Talk:Geographical centre/Archive 1

WP:DABCONCEPT
Note: This article does not qualify for disambiguation status, per WP:DABCONCEPT. bd2412 T 00:26, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Capital vs. geographic center ratio index
Please mention an index (0..1) that can be assigned to countries etc. with their capitals near their geographic centers, Chile, vs. ones with them at varying degrees to their edges, e.g. Wyoming, Kazakhstan, etc. I suppose greater than 1 would be countries    with capitals "beyond their borders" to varying degrees. Jidanni (talk) 15:48, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Do you have a reliable source for this comparison? Because otherwise it looks like a violation of WP:SYN. —David Eppstein (talk) 17:48, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
 * OK: please somebody create a new page: Countries ordered by centeredness of their capitals. 1) in relation to their geographic center. 2) in relation to their population center. Jidanni (talk) 02:42, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
 * It still needs a source. See WP:LISTN: "a list topic is considered notable is if it has been discussed as a group or set by independent reliable sources". —David Eppstein (talk) 03:03, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

No difficulty with "how" to include islands
BushelCandle (talk | contribs) at 16:16, 4 September 2019, reinstated the sentence "Questions remain about how to include offshore islands" that I had removed a little earlier. This sentence appeared at the beginning of the paragraph referring to the cited 1964 USGS document. That document had no comment about difficulties with "how" to include islands. There is not any technical difficulty with "how" to include islands. (Consider a centre of population, where each unit of population, perhaps one person, could be considered an "island".) However there could be debate (in some particular case) about whether islands should be included or not. There are also other potential points of debate. So I have added a new paragraph mentioning some of those. SeeNoEvil (talk) 03:30, 6 September 2019 (UTC)

Collections of discrete points
Are there any secondary sources (or sources appropriate for Wikipedia) of knowledge about calculating the mass properties (such as geographical center, maybe moment of interia) of a finite set of lat-long points. Lori (talk) 16:30, 6 May 2020 (UTC)