> "I donât know how it is in other countries, but we just donât have the > ability to construct such a database without a massive manual effort."
> Is it possible to pin the monuments on a collaborative google map, then > export the data needed? > On 19/05/2014 11:04 AM, "Kerry Raymond" <[email protected]> wrote: The Android game Ingress should be able to provide some subset of the list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingress_%28game%29 The gameplay consists of establishing "portals" at places of public art, landmarks, cenotaphs, etc., ... ... Portals are typically associated with buildings and landmarks of historic and/or architectural significance such as sculptures and other public art, libraries, post offices, memorials, places of worship, public transit hubs, parks and other recreational or tourist spaces.[20] Players may submit requests for the creation of new portals,[21] and the number of portals has increased steadily over the lifetime of the game. The density of portals correlates with population density, thus the central areas of cities typically contain the highest concentration of portals. https://plus.google.com/u/0/+Ingress/posts/jK9tfvdzDC7 By the look of https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.marcosdiez.ingressurltogps the portal link on the Ingress Intel map directly encodes the lat/long http://www.ingress.com/intel/ So Ingress players (not me) or Niantic Labs (=> Google) may be able to provide coordinates. >> I can add a little more as I was in the loop of some email >> conversations in 2013. >> A big problem for us to participate in WLM is the expectation that we >> can >> upload a database of monuments including lat/long coordinates for use >> with >> the WLM Mobile app. I donât know how it is in other countries, but we >> just >> donât have the ability to construct such a database without a massive >> manual effort. Obviously we known of various heritage registers compiled >> by >> the Commonwealth, states, local governments and various other >> organisations >> (National Trust, Engineers Institute, â¦), but these are generally not >> available to us in any electronic format. Iâve been in conversation >> about >> getting the Queensland Heritage Register released under CC-BY license >> which >> is apparently OK in principle, but has yet to actually occur in >> practice. ... _______________________________________________ Wikimediaau-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
