Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Coordinates tools & pan-European sponsorship

-- Nuno Tavares Wikimedia Portugal http://www.wikimedia.pt Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a fazer. Participe também: http://www.wikimedia.pt Seg, 2011-03-28 às 12:22 +0200, GoEthe.wiki escreveu: > 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 sponsorship > > > > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > WikiLovesMonuments@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu