Nice tool! But when I look at my area, the problem are not missing photographs but just that most of them are not geocoded.
indeedous 2014-06-19 23:11 GMT+02:00 Samuel Klein <[email protected]>: > Emilio - this is so beautiful! > Daniel - I beg to differ: a photo per km2 would add tremendous value > for the right people and the right uses; geograph's mission is both > inspiring and interesting. > > SJ > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Daniel Schwen <[email protected]> wrote: > > While increasing our worldwide image coverage is certainly desirable, > > I think that the arbitrary metric of defining "coverage" as one image > > per km^2 is not very useful at best and misleading at worst. > > The necessary image density strongly depends on local features. Having > > one image per km^2 in a City center (or even a single image inside a > > building) is not nearly enough. On the other hand requiring one image > > per km^2 in a desolate desert, or even a forrest is an unrealistic > > requirement that will not add much value to commons. > > > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all; > >> > >> Since I watched the project Geograph Britain[1] long time ago, I dreamed > >> with a global version. I have been playing with maps (mostly Google > Maps) in > >> the past years, but now that I'm migrating my tools to Wikimedia Labs, I > >> started to read about OpenStreetMap and Leaflet. > >> > >> I have made some tests and coded a pretty alpha version of the > concept.[2] > >> It shows circles of 500m radius for every geolocated image on Commons > (there > >> are about 4 million). Not all are shown at the same time, but only > 10,000 > >> per zoom level. So you only have to make zoom on your city or in the > search > >> box. > >> > >> Some examples: > >> * Barcelona > http://tools.wmflabs.org/commons-coverage/#12/41.3927/2.1407 > >> * Moscow http://tools.wmflabs.org/commons-coverage/#10/55.7252/37.6290 > >> * Montevideo > http://tools.wmflabs.org/commons-coverage/#11/-34.8200/-56.2269 > >> > >> So, I would like to hear your opinions and suggestions about the idea of > >> scaling Wikimedia Commons into a project with at least 1 image per km2 > >> globally. > >> > >> The code is in GitHub[3] and it is forked merging 2 examples of the > >> thousands of Leaflet library examples available. Currently the code is > >> pretty simple and you can help to improve it. > >> > >> Regards > >> > >> [1] http://www.geograph.org.uk/ > >> [2] http://tools.wmflabs.org/commons-coverage/ > >> [3] https://github.com/emijrp/commons-coverage > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Commons-l mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Commons-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > > > > -- > Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l >
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