Commons talk:Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in the United States

Links to lists and articles needing pics

The big U.S. states map on this page is not very helpful. I just edited to provide link to the Wikipedia system of list-articles about NRHP places. But the current U.S. map here should perhaps be deleted.

Why?

• For example, clicking on Nevada brings you to a Google map view of the locations of many Nevada NRHPs, based on coordinates in the wikipedia list-article for NRHPs in NV (shortcut: w:List of RHPs in NV). But it has no coverage of the biggest counties (Nye County, Washoe County, Carson City), which, in wikipedia have been split out to separate list-articles.
• And, just the coordinates are not very helpful. It is well-known within wikipedia WikiProject NRHP, that coordinates given are often off by a bit, due to outright errors but also to technical changes/corrections of the world-wide coordinates system. What a potential photographer needs is the address and other identifying info (often including NRHP nom doc and historic pics) available at an individual article about the place, or available in less detail at the Wikipedia list-article for the county or city. More than 50% of NRHP places now have individual Wikipedia articles. A potential photographer should be assisted in finding their way to those! --Doncram (talk) 15:11, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

These are real problems. However:

• Clicking on a State brings me to that State's place on the list. For counties and other subdivisions, we just need other items under the State headers, each one making a county map from the appropriate sublist.
• Yes, our coordinates have many errors. I myself have chased bad coords over hill and dale half a dozen times. Coords, however, are where maps come from, which are highly useful for planning a day of hunting. For bad coords I sometimes use my smartphone to bring up the article and find the street address, or more often give up on that target for the day, move on the the next, repair the error at the desk that night, and return some other day. Yes, lists ought to include both street addresses and coordinates. I often work from New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission lists that have street addresses but not coords. Those are even more difficult than vice versa, and not just because the street addresses are sometimes wrong. Jim.henderson (talk) 13:52, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

We are working on a better coordinate-based map, which has some of its own bugs (there's one place in Texas that got mapped to the middle of the Pacific Ocean). Check it out at [1]. Feedback appreciated. —Mono 17:58, 25 August 2013 (UTC)