Hi Simon,
This is totally awesome! I have been uploading photos recently to Commons
and was wondering how I would be able to geotag them efficiently. I tested
the tool a while ago and it works as expected.
Here are some suggestions:
1. The coordinates have too much precision. I see 15 decimal places in the
tool, which makes the photos geocoded to an accuracy of one-tenth of a
nanometer. What is ultimately stored into the File page is 10 decimal
places which is still too precise (~10 μm). 5 decimal places (~1 meter
accuracy) should be more than enough.
2. For the step of selecting files, it would also help to have the option
of specifying a user, defaulting to the OAuth-authenticated user. Usually
you would want to geocode files that you yourself uploaded.
Hope this helps!
~Eugene
On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 3:27 AM, Simon Legner <simon.leg...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm not totally sure whether this is the correct mailing list, but the
> topic is very map related :)
>
> I always figured that there should be a comfortable way for geocoding
> existing files on Wikimedia Commons. However, Commons:Geocoding only
> mentions tools that somehow generate a {{Location}} string which has
> to be inserted manually afterwards.
>
> That's why I tried to tackle this problem. The outcome is the
> locator-tool: https://tools.wmflabs.org/locator-tool/
>
> The idea is that you generate/insert a list of media files to geocode.
> Afterwards you take file by file, select its location on an
> interactive OpenStreetMap-based map. The tool will automatically
> generate the {{Location}} string and insert/update the wikitext.
>
> The web application is mostly written in JavaScript using the
> AngularJS framework. Only the OAuth and editing stuff requires a slim
> backend written in Python/Flask.
>
> Currently it only supports editing {{Location}} templates, but not
> {{Object location}}. As far as I understand, the latter is not
> returned by the API (action=query, prop=coordinates)? The camera
> heading isn't yet editable neither.
>
> Cheers from Austria,
> Simon
>
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