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?
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2011/7/15 Jane Darnell
jane023@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@gmail.com
>
>> 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 :-)
>>
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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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