Geolocating tool
In Wikidocumentaries all openly licensed images can be geotagged. This is not available for images, whose reuse is restricted.
There will be an internal geotagging app, and the images can be rephotographed and geotagged with the Ajapaik mobile app.
Development is based on the work done in the Ajapaik.ee project of the Estonian Photographic Heritage Society as well as the Surveyor project for New York Public Library Labs.
Workflow for geotagging
Images are viewed in the topic page images module or an image viewer. Images may also be present in articles.
Access to geotagging is available with each image in the images module and the image viewer.
- The metadata of an image is saved into Wikidocumentaries on the moment it is selected for enriching. Any action in the actions menu will make this happen. Metadata mapping is defined for all sources that Wikidocumentaries communicates with.
The geotagging interface includes a split view of the zoomable image and the zoomable map.
- Should the user first set the coordinates with a signle coordainate pair? (Used in Surveyor)
- The user will place the camera, the target and the camera angle (placing the image edges) on the map.
- It should be possible to use different background imagery: Aerial images, OSM, local official open map sources, historical maps. Maybe even display nearby images? This interface should be similar to the map interface in the topic page.
- Address og geographic search may be used to help find the location.
The geotagging data is added to the local image metadata.
- We can contribute to a standardised exchange format for geotagged photos.
The user contributions will accumulate, and methods of verifying best locations may be developed.
The image metadata will be imported to Wikimedia Commons with the original photo either manually immediately or as a scheduled bot task.
Inspiration
Ajapaik web app
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