[OSM-talk] adding Wikimedia videos to OpenStreetMap objects

[François Lacombe]

Hi Oleksiy,

It'e surely useful to link OSM objects and wikimedia content.

As you mentionned, OSM objects can easilly be linked to wikidata with a
simple scalar value.
Since wikimedia video can also refer to wikidata object, a link between OSM
and video sounds redundent.

Such a link shouldn't be done as to ensure of data quality and its
maintenance


All the best

Francois


2017-01-30 9:52 GMT+01:00 Oleksiy Muzalyev <oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch>:

> Dear fellow mappers,
>
> It is possible now to upload to the Wikimedia Commons the videos which
> illustrate Wikipedia articles. On Saturday I went to the highest summit of
> the Swiss portion of the Jura mountains, Mont Tendre
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Tendre> , and filmed a short, 4
> minutes, video about it.
>
> Then I added this video to the respective Wikimedia category and to the
> Wikidata page, and added wikidata=* and wikimedia commons=* tags to the OSM
> node of the summit: http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/343335042
>
> I used for filming the cameras Sony RX100 V and DJI Osmo, and for the
> aerial footage the latest DJI Phantom 4 Pro+ quad-copter. The Wikimedia
> accepts videos in the free open WEBM format, so I converted the MP4 file
> into WEBM with the ffmpeg <https://ffmpeg.org/> command line tool.
>
> The quality of the resulting WEBM video:
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mont_Tendre_Jura.webm (select at
> least 1080P resolution in the player for viewing)
>
> is comparable with its Youtube version:
>
> https://youtu.be/pgNiCYzr7sg
>
> The DJI Phantom 4 Pro+ has got a camera with one inch image sensor and
> improved lenses. In my opinion, it is the first aircraft of this class
> capable to film really useful aerial photos and 4K aerial videos. Creating
> a good video is not a trivial task, still there is a lot of information on
> it, and the quality equipment is readily available.
>
> And it is kind of interesting. In fact, we could climb on the Mont Tendre
> only from the third attempt. Two first attempts failed due to the snow,
> wind, low outside temperature, and the remoteness of a location (it is also
> the most isolated mountain of the canton of Vaud), besides we had to carry
> the equipment. Probably, I would never did it in winter, if it were not for
> filming.
>
> A video may convey much of significant information about a location. It
> may provide not only ground and aerial footage, but also some practical
> advice and insights via a microphone. Perhaps, in future we may think about
> creating a video=* key for direct linking to the videos with a Creative
> Commons license. But even now it is possible to do it via wikidata=* and
> wikimedia_commons=*.
>
> With best regards,
>
> Oleksiy
>
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