In Germany we're running a side-project to WLM in a small town where the local organizers ask a geo-caching group to provide the coordinates. Also, a cooperation with OpenStreetMap might be helpful to obtain the data.
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Lodewijk lodewijk@effeietsanders.orgwrote:
In the Netherlands we had the luck that the RCE provided all the coordinates - that means that we have roughly a coverage of 100%. The good thing about that is that you can build upon that with your toolings and enable people to find monuments nearby easily.
The part I like most is actually where people start correcting the mistaken coordinates, which were previously for example on the southern hemisphere :P
Lodewijk
2011/7/30 Charles Andrès charles.andres@wikimedia.ch
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.
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