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

[Arun Ganesh]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Naveen Francis <naveenpf at gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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,
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>>> 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
>>>
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>> 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.
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>> 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?
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> Hi Arun,
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> AFIK WLM team of Romania uses OSM.
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> http://wikilovesmonuments.ro/2011/12/wikimedia-commons-wiki-loves-monuments-openstreetmap-si-mai-ce/
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Using OSM is easy once you have the coordinates, but I'm wondering how they
synced the monument list with the coordinates in the first place. I can
just assume the list already came with coordinates, but in our case we need
to geocode the list which is a bit of a task.


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 Arun Ganesh
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Geography.Information.Design
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