[Wiki Loves Monuments] Tool to add Coordinates

[Michal Matúšov]

As I know OpenStreetMap use Microsoft Bing satellite maps to create free
map. I am not sure about all agreements between MS and OSM but maybe we
could use Microsoft Bing in same way as OSM are doing. 

We can think about similar tool but for WLM lists on Wikidata in the
time when Wikidata accept list-function. 

Regards! 

Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 19:36:16 +0100 From: Andrew Gray
<andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk> To: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" OSM has traditionally
been very firm that taking coordinates directly from Google Maps is not
valid for their license, but I'm not sure how well their license maps to
ours in this case. A coordinate is basically the only piece of
information they need, so they'd be copying all the information, whereas
for us it's a much smaller detail in an overall work, so it's more like
checking a single entry in a reference book. I think we're okay :-)
(Besides, in most cases we'd need the satellite view to be sure if the
building isn't specifically mapped already...) A. On 14 September 2013
17:08, Andrea Zanni <zanni.andrea84 at gmail.com> wrote: 

> Hi, that's a great idea. In Italy we have kinda the same problem, but we are currently discussing about the "legality" of taking coordinates from Google Maps. We have several members which are from Open Street Maps and they say that is is *illegal* (IANAL, so don't discuss with me :-). Maybe if your tool could take the coordinates from OSM we could solve every problem. Aubrey On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 5:28 AM, Naveen Francis <naveenpf at wikimedia.in>wrote: Good tool !!!! Is it possible to enable in en wikipedia ? Indian monuments are poorly located -- WLM India team On 14 Sep 2013 03:57, "Vacio" <vacio at riseup.net> wrote: Hi guys, In Armenian Wikipedia, we have now a tool which allows users to add coordinates of a monument using Google-maps in a pop-up window. See example below: This might be useful if a lot of coordinates are missing from your lists (like in our case). The JavaScript can be found here: [[:hy:MediaWiki:WLMcoord.js]]<https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:WLMcoord.js
[1]>). It was developed by [[u:HrantKhachatrian]]. If you want to integrate the tool to your local Wikipedia and/or have any questions, let us know :) Vacio _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments at lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments [2] http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org [3] _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments at lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments [2] http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org [3]
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