This is really great! How does Wikidata's approach compare with geocoordinates used by, for example, Google's approach to mapping and navigation?
Scott On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Sven Manguard <[email protected]>wrote: > I've been doing some manual importing, and have found that in the vast > majority of cases, when different languages' Wikipedias have different > coordinates for a location, the coordinates that are most accurate are the > ones in the language that is spoken where the location is. For example, > some of the first locations to have their coordinates brought over to > Wikidata were some train stations in the Netherlands. The Dutch and English > Wikipedias' coordinates differed, and the Dutch coordinates were right > every time. One English Wikipedia coordinate was even for the next station > down the line, over an arcminute away. > > Therefore I think that we should coordinates for locations in Germany from > dewiki, locations in Spain from eswiki, locations in the Netherlands from > nlwiki, etc. > > Sven > > > On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 5:36 AM, Cristian Consonni < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> 2013/6/12 Kolossos <[email protected]>: >> > 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. >> >> > Worst case would be that everyone use a bot and we would have a great >> > bot-war. >> >> I think it should be possible to just import them as data with >> different sources. >> If a coordinate pair is the same over multiple Wikipedia then you have >> more sources, see for example the property occupation:politician >> here[1] >> >> Ciao, >> >> Cristian >> >> [1] http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > > -- Scott MacLeod Founder & President http://scottmacleod.com -- World University and School (like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare) http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects World University and School is a 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt, educational organization. P.O. Box 442, (86 Ridgecrest Road), Canyon, CA 94516 415 480 4577 [email protected] [email protected] Skype: scottm100 Google + main, WUaS page: https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/108179352492243955816/108179352492243955816/posts Please contribute, and invite friends to contribute, tax deductibly, via PayPal and credit card: http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.htm. World University and School is sending you this because of your interest in free, online, higher education. If you don't want to receive these, please reply with 'remove' in the subject line. Thank you.
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