In addition to tools with popular services like Google or OSM, a partnership with a local map service provider [1] has proved attractive to local users. The map service has provided an access with Geohack parameters and showing it prominently as regional service at [[Template:GeoTemplate]] encorages local users to check coordinates and to add missing ones. Following this way, we are working another partnership with a large city map server.
[1] http://www.icc.cat/
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> From: charles.andres@wikimedia.ch
> Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 10:22:42 +0200
> To: wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org
> CC: maps-l@lists.wikimedia.org; wikilovesmonuments@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Coordinates
>
> In french the success story is a combination of different process:
> *a very active french heritage project, with the creation of all the articles about historical monuments in france
> *the developpment of the tools on toolserver for the visualization of geolocated articles on maps like google maps
> *some peoples fall in love of this tools and start to add kml template on each categories of articles that could be visualized this way
> *categorization of the articles laking geolocalization in hidden cats "articles lacking geolocalisation", very efficient !
>
> Obviously there is more parametrer like the creation of the list of all the heritage site per canton in switzerland, it makes a strong example for other wikipedian.
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Charles
>
>
> Le 30 juil. 2011 à 09:29, Lars Aronsson <lars@aronsson.se> a écrit :
>
> > What different projects and success stories do we have for
> > adding geographic coordinates to existing articles in
> > various languages of Wikipedia? In some languages there
> > are WikiProjects, but I think they were more active some
> > years ago.
> >
> > I tried to count now, and I think the Swedish language
> > Wikipedia has 32,600 geographic coordinates for its 404,000
> > articles or one coordinate per 12.4 articles. Is that
> > reasonable or is it far below the average?
> >
> > I need a success story to learn from.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Lars Aronsson (lars@aronsson.se)
> > Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
> >
> >
> >
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