Strainu,
We put a tool to manually fill in the gaps, where we use the technique
of positioning as near as possible using municipaly, district, Portugal
with gmaps API). If you're willing to manually fill in the coordinates,
I can pass you the code (you should adapt it to you database schema,
though):
http://wlm.wikimedia.pt/tools/plist
As a quick start, I'd suggest you to get a dump of wikipedia and import
some coordinates from templates like {{coord}}, etc, although the
optimal would be to get lists from official sources....
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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
Strainu escreveu:
2011/6/13 Jean-Frédéric
<jeanfrederic.wiki(a)gmail.com>om>:
2011/6/13 Maarten Dammers
<maarten(a)mdammers.nl>
Did anyone already try to use the Google
Geocoding API [2] to get the
coordinates?
I did. I put together a proof of concept using Google Docs, see
<https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjZN8eBGaLjSdGg5WDY3OUFJRmk0NmNLRFFLSnJ6ckE&hl=en_US&authkey=CNSs97UN>
This uses OSM API and GMaps API − At first look, OSM does not return that
great results, GMaps works better.
I was unsure of what to do with it (whether or not it was precise enough to
mass-geoloc items)
To my understanding, Poulpy already did something along those lines − can
you confirm ?
Unfortunately, searching for the address field is useless for
monuments outside of cities (at least for RO). We have indications
like "2 km SV of the village church" or "in the garden of the
elementary school in the village", which are totally useless, both in
GMaps and OSM searches.
I would very much prefer to look for the code or the name+city name,
but of course this would mean custom tools for each country, as one
would have different keys in OSM depending on the country.
Strainu
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