In Germany we're running a side-project to WLM in a small town where the local organizers ask a geo-caching group to provide the coordinates. Also, a cooperation with OpenStreetMap might be helpful to obtain the data.
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Lodewijk <[email protected]>wrote: > In the Netherlands we had the luck that the RCE provided all the > coordinates - that means that we have roughly a coverage of 100%. The good > thing about that is that you can build upon that with your toolings and > enable people to find monuments nearby easily. > > The part I like most is actually where people start correcting the mistaken > coordinates, which were previously for example on the southern hemisphere :P > > Lodewijk > > > 2011/7/30 Charles Andrès <[email protected]> > >> In french the success story is a combination of different process: >> *a very active french heritage project, with the creation of all the >> articles about historical monuments in france >> *the developpment of the tools on toolserver for the visualization of >> geolocated articles on maps like google maps >> *some peoples fall in love of this tools and start to add kml template on >> each categories of articles that could be visualized this way >> *categorization of the articles laking geolocalization in hidden cats >> "articles lacking geolocalisation", very efficient ! >> >> Obviously there is more parametrer like the creation of the list of all >> the heritage site per canton in switzerland, it makes a strong example for >> other wikipedian. >> >> >> Cheers >> >> Charles >> >> >> Le 30 juil. 2011 à 09:29, Lars Aronsson <[email protected]> a écrit : >> >> > What different projects and success stories do we have for >> > adding geographic coordinates to existing articles in >> > various languages of Wikipedia? In some languages there >> > are WikiProjects, but I think they were more active some >> > years ago. >> > >> > I tried to count now, and I think the Swedish language >> > Wikipedia has 32,600 geographic coordinates for its 404,000 >> > articles or one coordinate per 12.4 articles. Is that >> > reasonable or is it far below the average? >> > >> > I need a success story to learn from. >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Lars Aronsson ([email protected]) >> > Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu >
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