Brianna Laugher wrote:
Just thinking
out loud here, but are we using our photographs in Commons to maximum advantage?
User:Para has also created something that works with Google Earth,
which I haven't yet tried out:
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~para/GeoCommons/
People, take a look at the screenshot at
<http://tools.wikimedia.de/~para/GeoCommons/GeoCommons.jpg> to see
what's available right now.
With such an interface you can easily choose the photos where the camera
was pointing towards the object you're interested of, and additionally
choose which side of the object to see without knowing anything else
about the photos yet. If they were tagged with the object location only,
like Wikipedia articles are, you would have to go through all of them.
This method is far superior to browsing a gallery with views sorted by
each side of the object.
And as was mentioned a few times already, please read up on
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Geocoding>.
<small>the Commons data in the screenshot doesn't reflect the present
state of our geocoding</small>