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 >> > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l> >
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