"Angela" wrote: [snip] Specifically in connection with this (I created the template and I suspect most of the additions are mine to date), is there any particular problem with adding this template to each article referenced from Placeopedia? Someone on their list said we should be using a proper geo-thingy system, but I'm not wanting to wait for ages until they decide what they're doing, I want to do stuff now. As a point of principle, would it be OK if some took it upon themselves to obtain some sort of list from Placeopedia and instruct a bot to add the appropriate links to the appropriate article? Please note that I'm not volunteering myself at this stage, since my Internet access is strictly work-based and therefore does not allow the time to do it properly. I just want to know whether this idea is overstepping the bounds. I know we can't do the equivalent with say IMDb, but this is because of copyright problems. Placeopedia is using Wikipedia data to connect through to Google Maps: I can't see that there would be an equivalent problem. I would hate for an opportunity like this, of getting something really useful up and running really quickly, to be lost while we dither. -- Phil [[en:User:Phil Boswell]]

Angela wrote: [..] There already is a way to link to map services: [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Geographical_coordinates]]. The only disatvantage is that it's not located at wikipedia but links to an external server. You should better focus on this but manually adding links to *any* single selected map service. Nope. Maybe when it'll be possible to move categories and watch categories (the additions/removes, not the pages!) without needing a bot. Greetings, Jakob P.S: You can automatically compare placeopedia data with wikipedia geodata templates and vice versa. Directly editing coordinates stored in wikipedia articles using placeopedia would be nice but I don't see an easy way to do this.