Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Geocoordinates in upload form

Of the seven possible templates to copy back (down to the left on that page), the two last ones are object location. -- Med vänliga hälsningar Jan Ainali Ordförande, Wikimedia Sverige 2011/7/15 Jane Darnell <jane023(a)gmail.com> > > OMG OMG!!! (sorry for the enthusiasm) That is the solution right there! > You copy&paste the coords from the bot-generated camera location and then > that tool zeros right down to street level - I just tried it with the file > Tomasz sent me and the adjusted coords are returned in the same format. All > we need is a way to copy&paste those back into object location - do we have > that? > Jane > > 2011/7/15 Jan Ainali <jan.ainali(a)wikimedia.se> >> >> If we find someone who can do some hacking (which I can't) perhaps >> there is a way to integrate this tool to let the user select the location? >> http://tools.freeside.sk/geolocator/geolocator.html >> -- >> Med vänliga hälsningar >> Jan Ainali >> Ordförande, Wikimedia Sverige >> 2011/7/15 Jane Darnell <jane023(a)gmail.com> >>> >>> Tomasz, >>> Thanks for those links! As the Dutch say, "now my wooden clog is >>> breaking". Using the wonderful link right there to open street maps, is >>> there a way to ask the user who clicked on the image to update the >>> template:location if it is empty? This way the user just needs to move the >>> geo pointer on the map to the correct location (you probably need google >>> satellite view for this, not open street maps) >>> Jane >>> 2011/7/15 Tomasz Ganicz <polimerek(a)gmail.com> >>>> >>>> 2011/7/15 Jane Darnell <jane023(a)gmail.com>om>: >>>>> Jan, I don't have a camera that does this, so I can't test it, but >>>>> do I >>>>> understand from this that the EXIF info automatically gets stuffed >>>>> into >>>>> a Template:Location (camera location) field as it stands now? >>>>> Because that >>>>> way for the countries who have their act together with the GIS >>>>> coordinates >>>>> (like the Netherlands, Ahem!) we should do nothing, and then for >>>>> the >>>>> countries who are missing coordinates, we can have a bot move this >>>>> info >>>>> into Template:Object location and dump it into a category "GIS >>>>> coordinates >>>>> for XXX monuments under review" or some such thing >>>> >>>> Yes: >>>> >>>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:DschwenBot >>>> >>>> Typical recent action of the bot: >>>> >>>> >>>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Bersillies_%28Nord,_Fr%… >>>> >>>> >>>> I think we can simply talk to the owner of this bot to add such a >>>> functionality. Although IMHO quite substantial number of pictures of >>>> monuments are taken from some distance. especially tall and large >>>> buildings. Even if you take a picture of smaller object such as this: >>>> >>>> >>>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bersillies_%28Nord,_Fr%29_Salle_des_… >>>> >>>> Your possition is at least 6 to 10 meters from the possition of the >>>> object. It is better than nothing but anyway it is still wrong. For >>>> example if the small church in on the corner of the small square - if >>>> you take a picture from the opposite corner which is 50 m in distance >>>> it will put the possition of the church in obviously wrong place :-) >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz >>>> http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek >>>> http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ >>>> http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list >>>> WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments >>>> http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list >>> WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments >>> http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu >> >> >> >> -- >> Med vänliga hälsningar >> Jan Ainali >> Ordförande, Wikimedia Sverige >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list >> WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments >> http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu