User talk:Price Morse Collins

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Hello, Price Morse Collins, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Also a quick note, to point out that there was another (probably more helpful) reply to your question at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Centralized Wikipedia geographic database? Thanks :) --Quiddity 17:27, 3 August 2007 (UTC) [Ack, I see from your contributions that you already noticed that, and talked to anome. never mind!) --Quiddity 17:29, 3 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm now working on triaging the errors reported on the KML users' site. Interim results are now available at User:The Anome/Possible manually-generated geodata errors (201 errors) and User:The Anome/Possible bot-generated geodata errors. (474 errors) -- The Anome 22:58, 3 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Geodata

Thanks for your offer of data. By the way, I have some ideas for a long-term plan for geodata, which I'd like to talk about: but I've got to leave now and deal with some off-Wiki business, so I can't discuss it right now... -- The Anome 11:56, 6 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Did you get the geodata dump? (in case you got it too soon, I had to edit it about 5 minutes after first posting it to fix a UTF-8 conversion problem.)

Please confirm when you have received it, and then if and when you have put it to use. I can then co-ordinate with Google Earth about when their robots will next pick it up and upload the updates to Google Earth.

Longer term, it would be helpful if we could set up a regular procedure for these updates, which continue to be discovered. I believe the visual error checking which Google Earth users provide should be a great help in improving both Google and Wikipedia geotags.

Yes, I've got it, thanks! See User:The Anome/Possible bot-generated geodata errors for pages with errors which had geodata inserted by my bot, and User:The Anome/Possible manually-generated geodata errors for pages that have never been touched by the bot. I've applied automated fixes to the first list where possible, and I've almost finished fixing the remaining cases by hand. I've not yet had a go at the second list, which needs more analysis before any attempts to fix manually-generated data. -- The Anome 17:28, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The revised coordinates were all generated by using the <Address> lookup KML function of Google Earth. Then they were visually analysed for reasonableness, etc. That is why I said they will also be an improvement on the current status. If you just took the article list and reversed the sign of the longitude, that would be very disappointing. It would suggest that I should seek out volunteers, instead.

I would further hope that degree of care in their generation would reduce the manual inspection to which you allude, especially considering the uninspected nature of the current errors these fixes are designed to cure. When you have done whatever you deem necessary and have completed the bot updates, I now have some 200+ more (150 from the same French problem in the Basque country and the week's harvest of normal global user reports). I hope we can develop a procedure for how to best handle these problems. Both Google Earth and Wikipedia will be greatly improved. As well, if we can somewhat schedule the activities, that would also assist me in co-ordinating our input with the Google data scans.

I hope the manual effort isn't too great. What kinds of changes require that approach? Fairfax Geographer 20:17, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Upon detailed examination of the changes you made for communes in the Normandy provinces, I have now confirmed that you have merely reversed the East-West coordinates, thus preserving the original inaccuracies, which I believe are unacceptable for small villages (+/- an arcminute = nearly 2 kilometers at the equator).

I await your response to using my database. Fairfax Geographer 12:52, 10 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

June 2014

Please refrain from making test edits in Wikipedia pages, even if you intend to fix them later. Your edits do not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. Thank you.--John (talk) 15:22, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]