2011/7/15 Jane Darnell jane023@gmail.com:
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%2...
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_f...
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 :-)