In addition to tools with popular services like Google or OSM, a partnership with a local map service provider [1] has proved attractive to local users. The map service has provided an access with Geohack parameters and showing it prominently as regional service at [[Template:GeoTemplate]] encorages local users to check coordinates and to add missing ones. Following this way, we are working another partnership with a large city map server.
[1] http://www.icc.cat/ Vicenç > From: [email protected] > Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 10:22:42 +0200 > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Coordinates > > 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
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