Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
Pretty fun, yeah, but we need mapping support in Wikipedia for that to happen:
- People need some feedback or they won't work on geographical data.
Numbers are boring.
- Feedback is needed to see if the data is correct. It's very easy to make
a typo when typing numbers and if the result isn't presented on some kind of map, it's highly unlikely that somebody would correct it.
IF the GEO coordinate links to a special page, then this page could link to/show a mapquest map around that point, among other things. Or should we use such a map image which links to the special apge (like thumbnails)? That should be at least *some* feedback.
And for missing geography data: How about wikipedition (wikipedia expedition) to collect that data? Imagine: Thousands of wikipedians all over the world emerging from their basements, roaming streets, shorelines, walking along rivers and climbing mountains, their GPS receivers in one hand, the data-logging laptop in the other, to discover new life and new civilizations, to boldly wander where no geek has wandered before ;-) And they could take pictures for wikimedia commons while they're at it!
Magnus