OMG OMG!!! (sorry for the enthusiasm) That is the
solution right there!
You copy&paste the coords from the bot-generated camera location and then
that tool zeros right down to street level - I just tried it with the file
Tomasz sent me and the adjusted coords are returned in the same format. All
we need is a way to copy&paste those back into object location - do we have
that?
Jane
2011/7/15 Jan Ainali <jan.ainali(a)wikimedia.se>
If we find someone who can do some hacking (which
I can't) perhaps there
is a way to integrate this tool to let the user select the location?
http://tools.freeside.sk/geolocator/geolocator.html
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2011/7/15 Jane Darnell <jane023(a)gmail.com>
> Tomasz,
> Thanks for those links! As the Dutch say, "now my wooden clog is
> breaking". Using the wonderful link right there to open street maps, is
> there a way to ask the user who clicked on the image to update the
> template:location if it is empty? This way the user just needs to move the
> geo pointer on the map to the correct location (you probably need google
> satellite view for this, not open street maps)
> Jane
>
> 2011/7/15 Tomasz Ganicz <polimerek(a)gmail.com>
>
>> 2011/7/15 Jane Darnell <jane023(a)gmail.com>om>:
>> > Jan, I don't have a camera that does this, so I can't test it, but
>> do I
>> > understand from this that the EXIF info automatically gets stuffed
>> into
>> > a Template:Location (camera location) field as it stands now?
>> Because that
>> > way for the countries who have their act together with the GIS
>> coordinates
>> > (like the Netherlands, Ahem!) we should do nothing, and then for the
>> > countries who are missing coordinates, we can have a bot move this
>> info
>> > into Template:Object location and dump it into a category "GIS
>> coordinates
>> > for XXX monuments under review" or some such thing
>>
>> Yes:
>>
>>
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:DschwenBot
>>
>> Typical recent action of the bot:
>>
>>
>>
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Bersillies_%28Nord,_Fr%…
>>
>>
>> I think we can simply talk to the owner of this bot to add such a
>> functionality. Although IMHO quite substantial number of pictures of
>> monuments are taken from some distance. especially tall and large
>> buildings. Even if you take a picture of smaller object such as this:
>>
>>
>>
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bersillies_%28Nord,_Fr%29_Salle_des_…
>>
>> Your possition is at least 6 to 10 meters from the possition of the
>> object. It is better than nothing but anyway it is still wrong. For
>> example if the small church in on the corner of the small square - if
>> you take a picture from the opposite corner which is 50 m in distance
>> it will put the possition of the church in obviously wrong place :-)
>>
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>> Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz
>>
http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek
>>
http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/
>>
http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz
>>
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