"Paul Williams" paul@skenmy.com wrote in message news:465FE4F1.4030703@skenmy.com...
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I like this idea. Not only does it add more encyclopaedic value to the images we have on Commons - thus boosting all of Wikipedia's primary functions - it could also be useful to other projects. One thing I have in mind is Wikinews, the project I am most involved in, can instead find images of mountains or towns in the vicinity of the news event, rather than just a plain map each time. Longitude and Latitude will make this 100x easier if the files aren't named properly or we don't know the name of a town or whatnot.
However, a single long/lat pair is not enough. For example, [[George W. Bush]] would need (at a minimum) New Haven, Connecticut (birth place), Austin, Texas (state governor) and of course, Washington DC.
- Mark Clements (HappyDog)