Wikipediatlas/map coordinates
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From: "Magnus Manske" To: <wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 10:57 AM Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Maps
> I have implemented a map link demo at > > http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_testing > > This consists of about 10 lines of source code :-) > > Format is [[map:latitude:longitude]] or > [[map:latitude:longitude:zoom]]; if zoom is omitted, a default of 5 is > used. > > It can be switched to wiki-internal maps, once we have some. For the > discussion about formats and stuff, see > > http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipediatlas > > Magnus
The problem is that in mapquest appears :" We have received requests from users who would like to type in an address and view the latitude/longitude coordinate. Due to contractual limitations, we are only able to display latitude/longitude coordinates provided by users".
This is, the trouble its know the city coordinates.
Where can one obtain them easily ( I will try geographical institute, i.e. ) using the web ??.
From: "Lars Aronsson" <lars@aronsson.se> To: <wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org>
To obtain coordinates :
1. Look at a good printed map or atlas, visit your library
2. Use a GPS satellite navigator, if you have one
3. Look at a website built by GPS users, e.g. http://geourl.org/
or http://www.findu.com/ or http://www.geocaching.com/
4. Look for "Waypoint" files
5. Google for the city name together with "latitude", "longitude",
which gives hits like http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001769.html
6. Look at a map website, e.g. http://www.mapquest.com/ or
http://www.yahoo.com/
7. Look at a wiki that already uses map coordinates, e.g.
http://susning.nu/
No matter where you find coordinates, always look to see if they seem reasonable.
( Thank you a lot Lars)
I have found another interesting link and include it in Wikipedia Geographic_coordinate(obtaining):
I wonder where commercial flight simulators like X-Plane and MicroSoft Flight Simulator get their whole world terrain data? I'll bet they didn't pay somebody to type it in! There is likely a bas releif map already available if we can figure out which gov agency to querry.
Bird 18:59, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)
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