On 21.06.2016 15:36, Oleksiy Muzalyev wrote:
I wrote a program http://ausleuchtung.ch/geo_wiki/ which allows to
find location of all Wikipedia articles either by coordinates in the
articles themselves, or by the OpenStreetMap tags (wikipedia,
wikimedia_commons, wikidata) in the radius of ten kilometers around a
click.
It works for all language versions of Wikipedia, just change Wikipedia
language field from en to fr, de, it, ru, etc. A search by an OSM tag
may take 2 - 3 seconds.
So it is possible to check Wikipedia articles locations and OSM tags
in an area visually. I noticed and corrected quite of few Wikipedia
articles with wrong geographical coordinates with this tool. Probably
people, who posses encyclopedic knowledge and create articles, are not
always too good in cartography.
Best regards,
Oleksiy
For example, - the article Chapelle Notre-Dame-des-Voirons de Boëge
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapelle_Notre-Dame-des-Voirons_de_Bo%C3%ABge
You can see in the History of this Wikipedia article the correction of
geographical coordinates on January 1, 2016. This chapel is situated on
a mountain, but before the correction the coordinates had been pointing
on the top of another mountain, about 15 kilometers away.
brgds
Oleksiy
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