Hi Srikanth Many thanks for this. It's very useful.
Appreciate your initiative! Also, just read Achal's comments on his interactions with you. Inspiring stuff! Hisham Mundol India Programs - Wikimedia Foundation http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs skype: hisham.wikimedia gtalk: hmun...@wikimedia.org twitter: @mundol On Apr 11, 2011, at 4:39 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote: > Heya all, > Yesterday, at the 32nd Bangalore Meetup, Shubhashish, Ralph, Aniruddh and I > had a talk, and I decided to send this mail across. > Not all people know about geocoding images, or adding multilingual > descriptions. I thought I would give a brief introduction to these two > concepts. > Please NOTE : All examples used below are images uploaded by me. > > 1> Multilingual Descriptions: > While uploading a file, it is best recommended, to add a brief description. > By default, the language setting is English. However you cann add as many as > you want, and in the order of your preference. I use Hindi first, and then > English. EG: > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Central-Silk-Board-Flyover.jpg > I suggest adding descriptions in your local language and/or mother tongue > apart from English. It is irrelevant whether the language in which you type > has any connection the the picture. I have uploaded pictures of Tamil Nadu > with Hindi descriptions. > You can type in Indian languages using http://www.Quillpad.in or > http://www.google.com/transliterate/ > Alternatively, you can use > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keymanweb/Keymanweb on Wikipedia itself. > > 2> Geocoding images > Geocoding is a relatively easy process. > You can use http://tools.freeside.sk/geolocator/geolocator.html to generate > geolocation tags. > The process is simple, open Google Maps/Wikimapia/Open Street Maps, locate > the place in question, and copy the link, in Wikimapia, from the address bar, > Google maps, click on link, copy the first link, in OSM, click on permalink, > copy from address bar and paste it in the box on the link given above. > Click on Apply, it'll show the location in the map. Zoom in and give final > adjustments, if any to the location and copy the tags below. I suggest > {{location}} over {{coord}} as the latter is being depreciated. Among the two > {{location}} tags, I use the longer one. > Add the location tags to the additional info box while uploading. > > Note: > i] For some images, getting a location is easy. Eg: In > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RCC-Magic-Box-Hosur-Road.jpg it was > easy as the picture's location is an important junction on a major road. > Locating it on the maps was an easy task. > ii] For some pictures, it wasn't so easy, like > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NH-209-Dimbam_Ghat.jpg I didn't know > where to place the exact marker, so I chose a hairpin bend from the map that > seemed most likely or close to the one I photographed. [ For those who have > GPS enabled devices with you: Try saving the location, or like I discovered > later on, tweet out the something with locations enabled and favourite that > tweet for easy access later on. ] > > I bookmarked, the Commons Upload Form, GeoLocator, and the Indic Text tool on > my browser bookmarks toolbar so it can be opened as and when I take a > photograph. > > If anybody has any problems or issues with the above matter, please let me > know. I'll be happy to help you out in any event you haven't understood what > I mentioned. > > Regards, > Srikanth Ramakrishnan > User:Rsrikanth05 > @rsrikanth05 > > -- > Regards, > ME. > Wear a Lungi, Support the Movement > My infrastructure invasion... plus other images > too.. on Wikimedia Commons. http://bit.ly/d50SIq > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
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