> > I assume this is how most countries operate, at least from my experience. > The problem with Russia is that the database contains no coordinates. > Instead of opting for keeping them blank and add manually where available > (for example, from Wikipedia articles or existing tagged photos or manually) > they organized it by the nearest big city. For example, for France it would > mean that all monuments to which Montpellier is closer than any other center > of a department would get identical coordinates corresponding to the center > of Montpellier. Whereas it arguably helps to make a map of monuments, it is > definitely counterproductive when these coordinates start to get to the > images. > > > Cheers > Yaroslav >
There is no coordinates in the french official database. It was all geolocate manually on Wikipedia (but we have some tools to help ; plus it's probably easier in French since the municipalities are small). We decided not to put « approximate » coordinates because it's not possible to distinguish after if the coordinate are approximate or not… Cdlt, ~nicolas _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org
