[WikiEN-l] Re: [Wikipedia-l] Placeopedia

Tue Oct 18 18:27:14 UTC 2005

Anthony DiPierro wrote:

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>I put latitude and longitude on a bunch of my images on the commons. It'd be
>nice if there was a standard for that, and we could probably tag a large
>portion of the images there.
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How about a general format like:

{{geotag|system|place|locator[|reference system]}}

so that there could be any of  the following (nonsense examples with 
fake data):

{{geotag|OSGB|Kentish town|TQ 763 124}}

{{geotag|UTM|White House|8SUU8401}}

{{geotag|lat_long_dms|Burkina Faso|45:30:30 N 15:25:20 E|WGS84}}

{{geotag|lat_long_decimal|Burkina Faso|45.625 N 15.123 E|WGS84}}

At the start, these could just be display templates that generate (say) 
a little system-specific icon and text in a box, but they could be soon 
changed to expand to contain directives such as (say)

<geotag fmt="OSGB" place="Kentish town" locator="TQ 763 124" reference=""/>

to be processed by a specialized geotag extension that is capable of 
parsing each of the specified formats, and inter-converting between the 
different formats and coordinate systems.

-- Neil