Simon, have you seen the Wikimaps Waprer project? Sounds they are trying to do something similar with the historic maps:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikimaps_Warper_2.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikimaps I hope we will be able to store commons metadata (like coordinates) in the wikidata soon. On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 12:48 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> > 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Maps-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Maps-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l > >
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