My feeling (based only on personal experience and not data) is that altitude is entirely useless to everybody taking pictures on the ground and really interesting to everybody taking pictures from the air. I think most people would never notice if we took it out, but those that want it (people taking pictures from kites, hot air balloons, high-atmospheric balloons, pilots, etc.) would be very sad.

Can we strip it from the upload wizard (to catch most ground-based pictures) but add it to the template (so dedicated individuals can still include it in a slightly structured way)?

-ben

On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Erik Moeller emoeller@wikimedia.orgwrote:

Upload Wizard currently inserts the altitude information from the EXIF metadata, incorrectly, as the third parameter into the {{Location dec}} template. It looks like the template doesn't support altitude information at all.

We're inclined to remove it altogether unless there are good reasons to keep it and a proper way to include it. Thoughts? There's no reference to altitude info on https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Geocoding

Erik

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