Wiki loves monuments - OpenStreetMap, too!
Posted by poppei82 on 8 September 2014 in English. Last updated on 9 September 2014.Hi,
From 1.9. until 30.9. Wikimedia wants to collect nice pictures of cultural heritage. With the Wiki Loves Monuments contest you can win nice prices if your photos show a cultural heritage (building, monument etc.).
But if you go outside, don’t forget OpenStreetMap:
- it will support you in finding the cultural heritage monuments
- you can also add the cultural heritage monuments into the OSM-database
Find cultural heritage
You find the cultural heritage in your local city by browsing the country-specific lists of cultural heritages. For example in the overview of Germany’s cultural heritage lists you can navigate to the cultural heritage list of the city where you want to go to take pictures.
An online Graphic User Interface you’ll find at the Wiki Loves Monuments Map. However the monument lists for Germany are not complete. It seems that they were not found automatically by the Monuments Database-bot. Also there is no possibility to download GPX. Another tool, Panoramap seems to be outdated? I couldn’t see anything on it.
Planning routes (with Univisited or WLM-app (Android))
There is a small Android App that will support you in planning routes: Unvisited. You can set how many kilometres you want to go and how many pictures you want to take. It has a special “Wiki Loves Monuments-mode” that will specially look for cultural heritage. You can also take pictures for other Wikipedia articles. This app only shows locations of articles/monuments where a picture is still missing! However this app uses G-Maps and it is not possible to navigate directly to the monuments.
The Wiki Loves Monuments App is the official app to browse monuments, taking pictures and uploading them directly. However I was not able to do anything with this app…