User talk:Stefan Kühn

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Please, talk with me at my german user-page. -- Stefan Kühn 08:41, 18 May 2005 (UTC)


Hi, would you want to move some of your images to The Commons? gren 03:16, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

Please move my images to commons. Thanks. -- Stefan Kühn 08:41, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Image:Map Trans-Siberian railway.png

Hi Stefan,

I was just curious to know which software and cartographical data you used to draw the Trans-Siberian railway map ? Anything publically available ? About the map itself, do you think it would be possible to add the other 2 routes (Trans-Mongolian and Trans-Manchurian), as well as add the names of a few cities along the way, or would that be too much ? Thanks in advance ! Schutz 10:32, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Hi Schutz, I write my Dissertation and have not so much time. I use the Standard-Data from ArcGis 9.0 and digitise the railway-line with a map from the internet. I don't add the name of the capitals, because so every language can use this image. If you send me a map from Trans-Mongolian and Trans-Manchurian I can add this in the future, when I have time. -- Stefan Kühn 16:09, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thankyou for wikipedia Google Earth dumps

Hi Stefan. I just thought I'd leave you a note to say thankyou for the dumps of all the Wikipedia points in Google Earth format. I keep it in the My Places folder in Google Earth all the time. It's good for noticing towns that are lacking in coverage in Wikipedia. Eventually, when I have coded or written articles for enough places, it will clearly show how development in rural Australia follows the highways. Great job. --Scott Davis Talk 09:49, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Data entry complete

Stefan, I've now finished pushing the data for the first city/town dataset into Wikipedia. See Special:Contributions/The_Anomebot2 for a log of the articles touched. -- The Anome 22:28, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Update: I've now added many more entries, fixed some bugs which were making the heuristics over-strict, aded extra categories such as lakes, islands and mountains, and also merged entries from the de: geodata down to dm level using your dataset (I have not yet merged the dms-precision data). This means the en: Wikipedia now has approximately 15,000 more geotags than before. -- The Anome 14:14, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Greetings

Hello Stefan. I'm Julian. We met at TU-Dresden on last Wikipedia meeting (02.10.2006). I was collaborating fixing the geographical links of the Spanish Wikipedia. Bye ! Julian Mendez 16:13, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for greetings. :-) -- sk 19:51, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Adding?

Hello, Stefan. I would like to ask, whether i could add the information about localities in Lithuania over 100 inhabitants, including into your site? Many of those localities are on the way to be covered in Lithuanian Wiki, however, other languages are much less developped. What you think about it? CD

Please, make a Category:Coordinates_templates in LT. So I can see which templates you use in Lithuanian Wiki. I will extract then also the LT-Dump. We work for a internatinal dataset, which we can translate in all languages. See de:Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Georeferenzierung/Wikipedia-World (Sorry at moment only german.) -- sk 20:02, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] planimeter picture

Hi Stefan. The image page says that the planimeter picture here [1] was uploaded by you. Did you take the picture? If not, do you know where you got it and/or who took it?

I'm asking because I work at a correspondence high school; I'm putting together some curriculum materials, in which I wanted to use the picture. According to the GDFL, I need to credit the author, so I want to make sure I've got the right person!

Also, if you are the author -- could you give me explicit permission to use it with attribution? The GDFL is a little weird for text stuff (it's meant to be used for software), and, again, I'm trying to make sure I've got everything right.

Thanks! NoahB 20:54, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes it is my picture. Now there is a description at the commons picture [2]. -- sk 15:44, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Eduard Imhof

Hi, I've nominated an article you worked on, Eduard Imhof, for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Wikipedia:Did you know. You can see the hook for the article at Template talk:Did you know#Articles created on June 5 where you can improve it if you see fit. Thanks, Jirt 20:14, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Infobox Swiss town format for coordinates

Following your post on [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Geographical_coordinates&diff=137436766&oldid=137003574 Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Geographical_coordinates]: Can you suggest a preferred format? I'd agree to update Template:Infobox Swiss town. Currently, it uses nd=,nm=,ed=,em= which dates from when templates couldn't transclude other templates. (e.g. lat_d=, lat_m= or coord= or coordinates= {{coor .. ).

In the meantime (until the next update), and if it isn't done yet, I 'd be glad if you'd parse the ones we already use. -- User:Docu


As I've already replied elsewhere, the standard terms are "latitude" & "longitude"; or "coordinates". Or simply use {{coord}}, which Stefan (and other organisations, such as Google Earth) have already agreed to parse). 21:31, 11 June 2007 (UTC)Andy Mabbett

[edit] #Standardize names for coordinate variables in template namespace

You might want to look into the above proposal. BTW any chance that the most useful tool at [3] gets updated? I used it to fix a few infoboxes and would be glad to see their state. -- User:Docu

We make every 6 or 8 weeks a update if a new dump is available. But at the moment there is a big problem with the toolserver. -- sk 14:44, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tibetan places on the wiki map

Hi I've recently been adding the Tibetan towns and villages to wikipedia complete with coordinates. However the titles of the new villages I have been adding aren't showing on the wiki mini atlas in the globe. If you look at Tibet on the map only the larger places like Lhasa, Dhingri, Shigatse, Golmud etc are showing when it ought to show the titles of smaller places like Alamdo, Azog, Baicang etc and tens of others i have been adding when you zoom in. PLease can you help me because I am trying to draw up a detailed map of Tibet as I add these articles but they are just not registering as places on the map ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ "Talk"? 09:38, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Hello SPECTRE, the data for the WikiMiniAtlas will not be updated live. We must scan the last dump from EN-Wikipedia and then we create the files for the WikiMiniAtlas. The current scan is from August, so the coordinates from Tibet are not inside this dataset. The next update will be started in some weeks. -- 89.50.230.167 20:42, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Parsing of {{infobox lake}} by Templatetiger

It appears that the coordinates held by a template in a field "coords = {{coor at dms|59|59|N|179|59|W|type:waterbody_region:ZZ}}" aren't extracted. Is there a way to do this? Most lakes have coordinates (WT:GEO#Lakes_needing_coordinates), but these aren't shown .. -- User:Docu

Where do you want the extracted coordinates? Inside Templatetiger? Inside Wikipedia-World? At the moment the TT can only scan the first level of templates. If a template inside a other template, it can not extract. The perl-code for this extracting is very complex. I was very happy to scan only the first level right. Maybe in the next weeks I have time to build a new version. But never change a running system :-) -- sk (talk) 14:44, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Mainly Wikipedia-World (I guess this is where para gets them for his tools (e.g. {{GeoGroupTemplate}}). I suppose Wikipedia-World is based on template-tiger. Personally I already check template-tiger by querying directly {{infobox lake}}, but e.g. {{coor at dms}} doesn't render much for lakes. -- User:Docu
No, for Wikipedia-World I use a special programm. This extract nearly all templates and infoboxes with coordinates. In the last time I have not update this programm. But in the next weeks I will reprogramming the script and then it will also extract this infobox. - We (Kolossos and I) use the interwikis. If a german article has a coordinate and the english not, then we use the coordinate also for the english Wikipedia-World. So we have more coordinates. -- sk (talk) 16:31, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
Great, good to know it will be updated. I did find that the articles with a German version do show up, but e.g. Lac de Taney hasn't. BTW en-wiki is currently running a another dump, let's hope it runs through. -- User:Docu