Commons:Locator-tool
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Locator-tool is a tool which helps geocoding existing images, i.e., to add {{Location}} or {{Object location}} information and structured data to images on Wikimedia Commons.
The tool has been developed by Simon04 (talk), and is located at WMF Toolforge – locator-tool.
Wikidata Infobox
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Each Wikidata Infobox contains a link to launch locator-tool from that specific category.
Gadget
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In order to get the locator tool added to your toolbox, enable the Locator-tool gadget in your gadget preferences.
Tutorial
[edit]| 1. Navigate to WMF Toolforge – locator-tool, or, when you've activated the gadget, click on Locator-tool in toolbox. | 
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| 2. Sign in using the button on the upper right corner. | |
| 3. Allow the locator-tool to edit existing pages. This is needed to automatically insert the {{Location}} or {{Object location}} information. | 
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| 4. Click Select files and either provide a list of files to geocode or specify a category to fetch files from that. | 
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| 5. Click load … to geolocate. | |
| 6. By default the list displays files lacking a {{Location}} information. Select one by clicking it. If this file already has {{Object location}} assigned, the object location field will be filled with included coordinates. |
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| 7. Select its location in the map. For object location press additionally the ⇧ Shift key. | 
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8. Click the green button on right side of the according input field. If you want to clear added coordinates, press the x button to the left instead.
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| 9. The location of camera or object will be saved. To convince yourself view the history of the file description page. | 
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| In step 5, you can alternatively click "show … on map" in order to display all files on the map. This helps to spot files with incorrect/inaccurate coordinates. | 
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Translate
[edit]Please help to translate locator-tool to your language: https://www.transifex.com/locator-tool/locator-tool/
Changelog
[edit]- 2024-02-04: Migrate frontend to Vue.js 3
- 2023-07-02: Update structured data on Commons
- 2022-04-21: Gallery of images (including metadata)
- 2020-06-30: Migrate to toolforge
- 2019-05-17: Round coordinates to 5 digits [1]
- 2018-11-01: Migrate source code to TypeScript
- 2018-03-11: Fetch {{Object location}} via GeoData; separate icons for {{Location}}/{{Object location}}
- 2018-03-11: Support fetching more than 500 user files
- 2018-02-02: Migrate frontend to Bootstrap version 4
- 2018-01-01: Display locator-tool build version in About page
- 2017-12-25: ↓/↑ keys select next/previous image
- 2017-06-07: Parse file list from HTML clipboard content (select images on Wikipedia pages, copy selection, paste selection to file list)
- 2017-06-05: Support limit/start/end for user files
- 2017-06-05: Display image categories as badges
- 2017-05-23: The locator-tool got its own icon:
- 2017-05-21: Image previews can be enlarged
- 2017-05-20: Locator-tool is an official gadget
- 2017-05-20: Markers can be dragged now
- 2017-05-14: Show a map of all selected images with coordinates
- 2017-02-26: Copy & paste of coordinates
- 2017-01-09: Support for {{Object location}} added
- 2016-12-31: French user language added
- 2016-12-20: German user language added
- 2016-05-18: First version (support for editing {{Location}})