Editing FAQ

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What geographic coordinate system (datum) does Zenbu use?
All coordinates on Zenbu are WGS84 degrees decimal. Decimal is the modern standard and a simple system for most uses; any program that uses Zenbu data will have no problem dealing with decimal.

Zenbu does accept degrees-minutes-decimal coordinates for input. The Center Coordinates: box below the Zenbu map accepts coordinates in a variety of formats including degrees-decimal (hddd.ddddd) and degrees-minutes-decimal (hddd mm.mmm).

Are POIs renewable?
Say a business at a particular site either changes its name or moves to another site, should the POI relating to that business be deleted and a new one created, or should you just edit the name, location, whatever, of the old POI to represent the new one?

A POI isn't locked to a location but it is conceptually tied to the thing it represents.

If a business moves location or changes phone numbers, and you would consider the entry to still be the same thing, please edit the attributes.

If one business closes and another opens at the same location, and the only thing shared is the location, please remove one entry and add the other.