Hi Andy and wikitech-l,
I was forwarded your message (by Evan here at Google) asking about Earth parsing the {coord} template. I am a data engineer working on the Wikipedia layer and hopefully can help get this question resolved.
We can make our parsing tools recognize the new template; however, we definitely do not want our decision to support this template to be misconstrued as an endorsement or ultimatum. So, we are wondering if it has broad support within the community?
It looks like one of {coord}'s purproses is to consolidate the number of templates available for geo-tagging articles and we are definitely excited about that prospect. Do you know if there are efforts to get {coord} (or an equivalent, 'standard' geo-tagging template) implemented in additional language versions of Wikipedia?
Lastly, we are discussing a collaboration with geonames.org. They have done a lot of great work parsing and conflating Wikipedia data. Perhaps they are worth reaching out to as another project using the geocoordinate templates.
Apologies for taking a long time to be in touch.
Cheers, Jason
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From: Andy Mabbett < andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk> Date: Jun 2, 2007 3:34 PM Subject: Google Earth and 'coord' template
Hi,
I'm told you might be the person to assist with this, or to direct me to someone who can.
Please do!
Thank you.
In "Wikitech-l" message < JUxoMwM$7IXGFw76@pigsonthewing.org.uk>, Andy Mabbett andy-VPqQCyIUKlYeBxrm02tS/ekiAK3p4hvP@public.gmane.org writes
Almost two months ago, User:GMaxwell undertook to arrange for Google to read the new 'coord' template:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Coord>
when they parse the raw Wikipedia data for their Google Earth Wikipedia layer.
Unfortunately, he hasn't posted for some time (I do hope he's OK).
Can someone else pick up that baton, please, or advise me who to contact? Or perhaps even confirm that that's been done?
Thank you.
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