We had the same problem for the Portuguese coordinates that were in IGeoE Hayford Gauss format, a national format, but I used ArcGIS to transform the coordinates, which seems to be accurate. If anybody else needs to convert coordinates, just send them to me (preferably in DBase IV format, but Excel is also ok) and I will return them in WGS84 format.
By the way, check http://wlm.wikimedia.pt/monumentos.php for our monuments map.
Best, Gonçalo
2011/3/28 Vicenç Riullop vriullop@hotmail.com
Wikimapia has some buildings geolacated. Not a solution, but it may help in some cases.
A problem we have encountered is that local administrations in Spain are using coordinates in UTM ED50 format. We use a spreadsheet to convert them into GPS format, but it is not precise enough for landmarks. Geohack does not have UTM ED50 format.
http://wikimapia.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ED50 http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/UsefulData/UTMFormulas.HTM
Vicenç
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:11:33 +0200 From: andre@molens.org To: wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Coordinates tools & pan-European
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On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 09:32:58AM +0200, Edo de Roo wrote:
http://toolserver.org/~multichill/coordinates.php?type=empty%C2%AEion=empty&...
This is the coordinates tool that is used on the Dutch wiki. It generates the code for the wiki-template, by picking a place on the
map.
I hope this helps us all out..
I am currently working on improving this one. My current version will do any changes you do directly to the generated template, so you don't need to click the coordinate again, and with help of Dispenser, the maintainer of the geohack tools, it can select the region automatically. I will move this version shortly to multichill's version.
If we should support other templates for other wiki's, I can look into
that
as well. For the auto-edit tools to work, some javascript should be installed on that wiki, but then I can add it to the list.
I am thinking of moving this to a project account on the toolserver, so if others are willing to help with this, let me know.
Regards,
Andre
Edo
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