I was keen to get the file pages corresponding to images on commons. I
was imagining that some file pages would have coordinates on them
corresponding to any geo data in the exif information
Fundamentally
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Nearby
Should work exactly the same as wikipedia no? Seems like a crying shame...
Use case:
Given I am at the Taj Mahal the nearby page should show me a load of
pages with photos of the Taj Mahal.
I've created a bug to capture it
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50133
On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 1:51 AM, Max Semenik <maxsem.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 22.06.2013, 3:01 Jon wrote:
I had a really cool idea of something to do today
but realised that
Commons has no geodata. How can we change this? (I'd expect to be able
to see nearby photos on
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Nearby)
If you want to see images on Nearby, you should probably request
them, not NS_MAIN;)
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