If we find someone who can do some hacking (which I can't) perhaps there is a way to integrate this tool to let the user select the location?
http://tools.freeside.sk/geolocator/geolocator.html -- Med vänliga hälsningar Jan Ainali Ordförande, Wikimedia Sverige <http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huvudsida> 2011/7/15 Jane Darnell <[email protected]> > Tomasz, > Thanks for those links! As the Dutch say, "now my wooden clog is breaking". > Using the wonderful link right there to open street maps, is there a way to > ask the user who clicked on the image to update the template:location if it > is empty? This way the user just needs to move the geo pointer on the map to > the correct location (you probably need google satellite view for this, not > open street maps) > Jane > > 2011/7/15 Tomasz Ganicz <[email protected]> > >> 2011/7/15 Jane Darnell <[email protected]>: >> > Jan, I don't have a camera that does this, so I can't test it, but do I >> > understand from this that the EXIF info automatically gets stuffed into >> > a Template:Location (camera location) field as it stands now? Because >> that >> > way for the countries who have their act together with the GIS >> coordinates >> > (like the Netherlands, Ahem!) we should do nothing, and then for the >> > countries who are missing coordinates, we can have a bot move this info >> > into Template:Object location and dump it into a category "GIS >> coordinates >> > for XXX monuments under review" or some such thing >> >> Yes: >> >> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:DschwenBot >> >> Typical recent action of the bot: >> >> >> http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Bersillies_%28Nord,_Fr%29_Salle_des_f%C3%AAtes.JPG&diff=prev&oldid=56610675 >> >> >> I think we can simply talk to the owner of this bot to add such a >> functionality. Although IMHO quite substantial number of pictures of >> monuments are taken from some distance. especially tall and large >> buildings. Even if you take a picture of smaller object such as this: >> >> >> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bersillies_%28Nord,_Fr%29_Salle_des_f%C3%AAtes.JPG >> >> Your possition is at least 6 to 10 meters from the possition of the >> object. It is better than nothing but anyway it is still wrong. For >> example if the small church in on the corner of the small square - if >> you take a picture from the opposite corner which is 50 m in distance >> it will put the possition of the church in obviously wrong place :-) >> >> -- >> Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz >> http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek >> http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ >> http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments >> http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu > -- Med vänliga hälsningar Jan Ainali Ordförande, Wikimedia Sverige <http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huvudsida>
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