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Use picture's GPS coordinates to propose nearby geographical categories
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Description

PROBLEM

Whenever I use the app, I waste considerable time trying to find what is the most appropriate geographical neighboorhood I should classify the picture into.

In practice, it leads to many uncategorized pictures and worse, mis-categorized pictures, which are hard to spot later.

SOLUTION

If the picture has geographical EXIF data, then request some server (hosted at Labs?) to return the 5 nearest geographical categories. The request can be done in parallel with the upload.
Show these 5 as suggested categories.

EFFECT

Less mis-categorization
Picture are more findable and useful
Less criticism of "App pictures being useless"


Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement

Details

Reference
bz62972

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 2:55 AM
bzimport set Reference to bz62972.
bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

As the Mobile Apps Team is focussing on the new, native Wikipedia app, the Commons app is no longer being maintained by the Wikimedia Foundation. I am WONTFIXing all open Commons app bugs to reflect that we will not be spending time fixing them.

For the full story, see this thread on mobile-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2014-September/thread.html#7974