Is MAPS.ME involved in this discussion? Without them interacting with the community it will be of no use to have further discussion.
Cheers, Johan Op 21 jun. 2016 16:05 schreef "Oleksiy Muzalyev" < oleksiy.muzal...@bluewin.ch>: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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