Haven't tried any of this, but how about most precise coordinate wins, and
for multiple top-precision ones, take the median (to remove the effect of
outliers)? Alert human if standard deviation is more than, say, 100m.


On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Kolossos <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hey,
> the question is now how we can merge coordinates from all languages to
> Wikidata. I would propose to use the coordinate from the longest article to
> have a good chance for using the most accurate one. Thats the way I use in
> Wikipedia-World[1]. After an update we could also use this database for an
> import.
>
> Other solution could be a map where we show all coordinates of one article
> on a map and the user can select, but this would make a lot of work for 1.5
> Mio coordinates.
>
> Worst case would be that everyone use a bot and we would have a great
> bot-war.
>
> Greetings Tim alias Kolossos
>
> [1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_**
> Georeferenzierung/Wikipedia-**World/en<http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Georeferenzierung/Wikipedia-World/en>
>
> Am 10.06.2013 20:50, schrieb Lydia Pintscher:
>
>> Heya folks :)
>>
>> * Made first version of the geocoordinates datatype available \o/
>> This means that you will be able to enter the coordinates of a city
>> for example as soon as someone created the necessary property for it.
>> (There are a few waiting on
>> http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/**Wikidata:Property_proposal<http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal>.)
>> It's still a
>> bit wonky so please do let me know about any issues you find. We're
>> already aware of:
>> ** 
>> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.**org/show_bug.cgi?id=49385<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49385>-
>>  cardinal
>> directions in geocoordinate datatype are not localized
>> ** 
>> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.**org/show_bug.cgi?id=49386<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49386>-
>>  apostrophe
>> issue in geocoordinate UI
>> ** 
>> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.**org/show_bug.cgi?id=49387<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49387>-
>>  property
>> parser function needs to support geocoordinate datatype
>>
>
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