If you want an enormous worldwide source of momuments that probably haven't even made it in to wikipedia yet (perhaps for good reason), check out what Google's Ingress game has accomplished. Monuments, public artwork, libraries, museums and parks are all valid "portals" in the game, contributed by players. I've been very active in that in Boulder.
Unfortunately they discourage sharing of their data. Though some similar info is in their Fieldtrip application.
If you have an account, this could do get portal lists for you though: https://github.com/clamburger/ingress-portal-finder
Neal McBurnett http://neal.mcburnett.org/
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 07:51:12PM -0600, Kimon Berlin wrote:
We already seem to have excellent coverage of Denver in [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_li stings_in_Colorado (there are separate subpages for Denver). Are any of these photos in need of improvement? This might be walkable, which is easier for logistics. A quick look around suggests lots of opportunities in JeffCo: [2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_li stings_in_Jefferson_County,_Colorado but we'll need cars. I'd reserve an editathon for late fall/winter, once the weather turns bad. Kimon On 8/25/2013 5:53 PM, Todd Allen wrote:
There are also a pretty good number of historic buildings in Denver. A good starting place would be the federal buildings downtown, but there are quite a few others as well. Would anyone be interested in that?
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Gaurav Vaidya <[3]gaurav@ggvaidya.com> wrote:
Hi everybody! People are organising Wikipedia Takes [Place] around America this September to encourage people to take photographs for Wiki Loves Monuments ([4]http://wikilovesmonuments.us/). Last year [1], we followed around a bunch of photographers and took pictures of buildings on the University of Colorado campus here in Boulder. Does anybody have ideas on what we could do this year? I'd love an editathon to improve the article on the University of Colorado and noteworthy buildings, people and organisations on campus or associated with them, which we might be able to organise with Norlin Library. On the other hand, it'd be great to have an excuse to enjoy the cooler temperatures we'll hopefully have up here as summer turns into fall! You can find out more about Wiki Takes America here, if you're interested in organising meet ups elsewhere in Colorado: [5]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_America cheers, Gaurav [1] [6]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_America/Bo ulder/2012 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-US-CO mailing list [7]Wikimedia-US-CO@lists.wikimedia.org [8]https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-co-- Freedom is the right to say that 2+2=4. From this all else follows.
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