My feeling (based only on personal experience and not data) is that
altitude is entirely useless to everybody taking pictures on the ground and
really interesting to everybody taking pictures from the air.  I think most
people would never notice if we took it out, but those that want it (people
taking pictures from kites, hot air balloons, high-atmospheric balloons,
pilots, etc.) would be very sad.

Can we strip it from the upload wizard (to catch most ground-based
pictures) but add it to the template (so dedicated individuals can still
include it in a slightly structured way)?

-ben

On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Erik Moeller <[email protected]>wrote:

> Upload Wizard currently inserts the altitude information from the EXIF
> metadata, incorrectly, as the third parameter into the {{Location
> dec}} template. It looks like the template doesn't support altitude
> information at all.
>
> We're inclined to remove it altogether unless there are good reasons
> to keep it and a proper way to include it. Thoughts? There's no
> reference to altitude info on
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Geocoding
>
> Erik
>
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> Erik Möller
> VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
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