On 12/12/06, Eugene van der Pijll eugene@vanderpijll.nl wrote:
Steve Summit schreef:
Google aside, this stuff needs cleaning up. For example, it's not at all uncommon to have a {{coor title d}} saying one thing at the top of the page, and another {{coor dms}} in-line in the article text, with slightly (or significantly) different coordinates.
Note that it is not always a bug to have more than one set of coordinates in an article. See for example [[Carnac stones]] or [[List of cities, towns and villages in Utrecht]].
Perhaps there should be a "noindex" parameter, which would enable Google and others to exclude these from their databases?
Or, indeed, a "multiplecoords" parameter - it would make sense to give multiple points for individual occurences of a same thing not dealt with in individual articles.
Thing is, we've two kinds of multiple links - ones which are basically navigational in a list, and ones which are "one thing many places". We probably need to figure out a way of telling Google Earth, and the things like it, that [[Carnac Stones]] is a sensible linkback for any given incidence of a coord taken from that article, but [[Villages in Utrecht]] isn't...
By the way, if you are impressed with the new Google Earth layer, you may also want to take a look at Stefan Kuehn's GE data files at http://www.webkuehn.de/hobbys/wikipedia/geokoordinaten/index.htm
Thanks for the pointer.