Anthony DiPierro wrote:
I put latitude and longitude on a bunch of my images on the commons. It'd be nice if there was a standard for that, and we could probably tag a large portion of the images there.
How about a general format like:
{{geotag|system|place|locator[|reference system]}}
so that there could be any of the following (nonsense examples with fake data):
{{geotag|OSGB|Kentish town|TQ 763 124}}
{{geotag|UTM|White House|8SUU8401}}
{{geotag|lat_long_dms|Burkina Faso|45:30:30 N 15:25:20 E|WGS84}}
{{geotag|lat_long_decimal|Burkina Faso|45.625 N 15.123 E|WGS84}}
At the start, these could just be display templates that generate (say) a little system-specific icon and text in a box, but they could be soon changed to expand to contain directives such as (say)
<geotag fmt="OSGB" place="Kentish town" locator="TQ 763 124" reference=""/>
to be processed by a specialized geotag extension that is capable of parsing each of the specified formats, and inter-converting between the different formats and coordinate systems.
-- Neil