Hello,

I produce a new KMZ-File for Google Earth with 43347 coordinates from the English Wikipedia. http://www.webkuehn.de/hobbys/wikipedia/geokoordinaten/index.htm

The biggest problem to use the geodata from our databank is the big number of different templates (68 !!!). In the German Wikipedia we have only three templates (and two other) but we working on a One-Template-System. Then we have only one template but different outputs. This is easier to understand and I hope better to use.

Some templates we don’t use very often in the English Wikipedia. "Templates:Coor dm NE" only in 19 articles. So we can change this and delete.

Another big problem is the missing of the attributes "region" and "type". With this simple attributes we can make really better geoinformation. Only 15% of the coordinates had the attribute "type" and 9% the attribute "region". If you want see how useful this attribute are, then try the German KMZ-File. There we have 31456 coordinates and 98% with "type" and 94% with "region".

I hope you all help to fill attributes in the existing coordinates.

More infos: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Geographical_coordinates

Thank you for your attention. Stefan Kühn Germany

P.S. For my Ph.D. thesis I have an On-line questionnaire to orientation and navigation aids. Please help me and fill the form (duration: max. 5 minutes)! http://www.kartographie.uni-trier.de/befragung.htm