On 2 October 2013 16:17, SK53 <sk53....@gmail.com> wrote: > I think what is best is a 'world file'. See > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_file. > > I dont quite know what technology wikimedia are using, but there are some > experienced wikimedians in the OSM community:
> Obviously there is a need to store > geolocation metadata with maps on wikimedia, but it's not obvious to me how > this is done at the moment. Taking: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ordnance_Survey_Drawings_-_Weymouth_(OSD_56).jpg as an example; note the use of https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:OSD_coordinates to contain the four corner and central coordinates. That makes it easier to programmatically extract them. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
