[Wiki Loves Monuments] Missing coordinates
Federico Leva (Nemo)
nemowiki at gmail.com
Mon Jun 13 10:55:10 UTC 2011
Maarten Dammers, 13/06/2011 12:41:
>> I was unsure of what to do with it (whether or not it was precise
>> enough to mass-geoloc items)
> A coordinate is better than no coordinate at all. From that point on we
> can start improving coordinates. We need of course somehow to indicate
> that the coordinate is derived and might contain errors. On the other
> hand: The coordinates we get from sources also contain errors so there
> is no real difference. I do wonder if the error rates are about the same.
It would be interesting to find also the coordinates of other items via
Google Maps and OSM and then compare them to the ones provided by the
institutions to see how big the difference is among the the various sources.
Nemo
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