Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Search/Search Commons images by (approx) coordinates

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Search Commons images by (approx) coordinates

Problem: Images can not be searched efficiently by coordinates.
Who would benefit: Generic users of Commons, not familiar with categorization logic, to retrieve geolocated photos without puzzling with categories. Expert users of commons willing to put order in categories.
Proposed solution: The search should be based on two Earth coordinates defining a quadrangole (through the northmost, eastmost, westmost, soutmost coordinate in the couple): the result should be any geolocated file in Commons with coordinates falling within such quadrangole. Max differences in degrees may be set to prevent abnormal number of result. Alternative approach could be to ask for a single coordinate and provide as result any gelocated file separated by a "no more than" degrees given value.
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Proposer: Ysogo (talk) 22:33, 18 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Please find here a Wikidata Query that provides part of this functionality based on images that are registered on Wikidata https://w.wiki/nGd. Maybe an equivalent query could be done in the future using Structured Data on Commons (SDoC) for any media file that would have geocoordinates? Geert Van Pamel (WMBE) (talk) 20:21, 19 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Geert. Thank you. Nevertheless such query only retrieves images that are referenced in a wikidata element. Actually the ratio between "non referenced" and "referenced" images is largely in favour of first ones: hence we are still blind on the largest slice. That's why I think that the functionality is important and it can be realised already today without waiting for SDoC. --Ysogo (talk) 20:37, 19 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Ysogo: This isn't an outright solution, but you might want to check out wikimap on Toolforge; this provides a map of geotagged Commons images. It's not exactly a search, but it can get some of the same functionality. Vahurzpu (talk) 02:22, 20 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

try nearcoord: e.g.: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=nearcoord%3A200m%2C48.208427%2C16.373256&title=Special:Search&profile=images&fulltext=1 --Herzi Pinki (talk) 19:39, 20 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
use e.g.: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=nearcoord%3A2000m%2C48.208427%2C16.373256+insource%3Auncategorized&title=Special:Search&profile=default&fulltext=1 to find uncategorized images next to coord. --Herzi Pinki (talk) 19:42, 20 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Herzi, thank you. This actually works in a way that is close to what I was looking for. Nevertheless, I believe it would be worthy to have a more user friendly interface for newcomers adding a couple of field in the "Advanced Search" page. Possibly this is not an enhancement to be addressed in the WishList but I would appreciate if developers take care of it.--Ysogo (talk) 07:20, 21 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

try https://wikimap.toolforge.org/ and you see images from commons on a map

Voting

Support MarioSuperstar77 (talk) 20:21, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Pmau (talk) 21:41, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support tsca (talk) 22:50, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Silver hr (talk) 00:08, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Ciao • Bestoernesto • ✉ 01:36, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support PianistHere (talk) 01:59, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Kaldari (talk) 02:52, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support OrCer (talk) 11:15, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Heartbeaz (talk) 11:15, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose there are privacy and safety issues, and then there's the issue of a delay in data updates resulting in images which don't reflect the status of searched locations in real time. Tyrekecorrea (talk) 18:36, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Rafael ^{(stanglavine) msg} 18:53, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Darwin ^Ahoy! 02:04, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support - yona B. (D) 08:12, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nk (talk) 14:04, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support 沈澄心 ✉ 14:24, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Libcub (talk) 20:27, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Alexcalamaro (talk) 22:36, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Dhx1 (talk) 13:22, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support 4nn1l2 (talk) 16:00, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Arnd (talk) 17:09, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Good idea. BoldLuis (talk) 18:15, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sounds pretty awesome to me! -- Mathieugp (talk) 18:16, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Anaxial (talk) 18:56, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support MathieuMD (talk) 19:08, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tom Ja (talk) 10:06, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Yiyi (talk) 19:17, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Meiræ 21:52, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Gelli1742 (talk) 20:21, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 13:37, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Épico (talk)/(contribs) 23:58, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Golmore (talk) 06:59, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Omegatron (talk) 15:03, 20 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Pstaudt-fischbach (talk) 17:32, 20 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]