Comments on: GeoData: a new age of geotagging on Wikipedia

By: Wiki Your City: Mobile App Lets You Geo-Tag Articles | WebUrbanist

Wiki Your City: Mobile App Lets You Geo-Tag Articles | WebUrbanist — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:01:10 +0000

[...] The coolest thing about this function will be discovering all sorts of interesting locations and monuments in your neighborhood that you probably didn’t even know existed. To learn more about how it works, check out the Wikimedia Foundation blog. [...]

By: Usability in web maps | cartoIQ

Usability in web maps | cartoIQ — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:33:47 +0000

[...] and geotagging – good idea and here is interesting post about GeoData extension for [...]

By: The-Pope

The-Pope — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:27:11 +0000

Please utilise the existing coords template or info box location data can be automatically used and not require any manual rework.

By: wikify your city with wikipedia’s nearby app « the urban geographer

wikify your city with wikipedia’s nearby app « the urban geographer — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 20:01:28 +0000

[...] information announced its spatial-debut, we paid attention. Wikipedia recently introduced its GeoData extension. This streamlined, centralized source for geographic information means that ‘mapping Wikipedia’ [...]

By: Wikify Your City With Wikipedia’s Nearby App — The Pop-Up City

Wikify Your City With Wikipedia’s Nearby App — The Pop-Up City — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 11:39:03 +0000

By: Social Bullets

Social Bullets — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 11:30:00 +0000

My initial thoughts are that, while I am generally against mobile location data being accessible in the cloud, I trust Wikipedia enough that this doesn’t bother me at all. In fact, I think that this will be a great addition to the service. I can imagine sightseeing and finding out about other interesting sites that I may have missed out on otherwise.

By: New GeoData Extension Allows Wikipedia To Be More Location-Friendly | DevWebPro France

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 13:41:13 +0000

[...] More on the technical side of things in this blog post. [...]

By: WikiMedia Gets Geodata Smart « Tim Chambers

WikiMedia Gets Geodata Smart « Tim Chambers — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 02:25:57 +0000

[...] just announced an open standards based means for adding geodata to any article. They launched a new Wikimedia [...]

By: H-stt

H-stt — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:58:43 +0000

That would have been my next question: Is this integrated into WikiData or can at least be integrated without much fuss? And will the Visual Editor be able to deal with it?

Otherwise I would suggest to shoot the head of development. We can’t allow several external data bases, with different software, different structures, different mark up and different what ever. Users simply won’t tolerate that.

By: Max Semenik

Max Semenik — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:36:25 +0000

Torsten, currently GeoData databases are per-wiki, however we have plans to centralise them through Wikidata.