[Talk-in] Monuments of India - geographical co-ordinates?

Naveen Francis naveenpf at gmail.com
Wed Aug 29 02:59:55 BST 2012


On 27 August 2012 22:03, Arun Ganesh <arun.planemad at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Pradeep Mohandas <
> pradeep.mohandas at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> hi,
>>
>> I'm a Wikipedian from India. We're doing a competition this September
>> called Wiki Loves Monuments (an effort through a competition to get pics of
>> various Indian monuments on Wikipedia). We scraped the list of monuments
>> defined so by the Archaeological Survey of India here -
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Wiki_Loves_Monuments
>>
>>
>
> Hi Pradeep, this is an amazing list that will be of useful reference. I'm
> sure a lot of the items on the list have been mapped out, especially in
> Hampi and Mahabalipuram. I'm not sure what is the best way of ezporting the
> coordinates to wikipedia though.
>
> With the available tools it looks like too much of a manual effort. How
> was this done for other countries participating in wiki loves monuments?
> Did they use openstreetmap in some way?
>

Hi Arun,

AFIK WLM team of Romania uses OSM.
http://wikilovesmonuments.ro/2011/12/wikimedia-commons-wiki-loves-monuments-openstreetmap-si-mai-ce/

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naveenpf

>
>> Each of the state pages has a table that requires geographic
>> co-ordinates. Help in getting them would be appreciated. The data would be
>> available on Wikipedia and could be made available on OSM as well, I think.
>> (OSM Loves Monuments?)
>>
>> warm regards,
>> Pradeep
>>
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