Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > There has been rapid progress on the subject of adding > OpenStreetMap maps to Wikimedia projects (e.g. Wikipedia) during > the MediaWiki Developer Meet-Up[1] taking place right now in > Berlin.
The Wikimedia developer meet-up in Berlin had three sessions on mapping. What Ævar posted was the outcome of one of them. Notes from all three are found on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Developer_meet-up_2009/Notes/Mapping I hosted a session that addressed current geographic data content in Wikipedia (Wiki projects to improve geodata quality). It's a fact that we don't know how many articles have coordinates or how many should have coordinates. On the Swedish Wikipedia, I found coordinates in 3 % of all articles. But on the Dutch Wikipedia, some 32 % of all articles have coordinates. We also have no real idea if these coordinates are accurate. The Dutch Wikipedia's article about a Norwegian city had a coordinate in central Sweden. How many such errors do we have? Some languages have a "WikiProject Geographical coordinates", but these are not coordinated (pun intended). So, my ambition is to improve coordinate quality and quantity across languages of Wikipedia. For now, this means using templates that link to the Geo Hack page. Depending on progress in the "Wikipedia & OpenStreetMap" project (that Ævar's post was about), these *links* might later change into *inline* maps. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se Wikimedia Sverige - stöd fri kunskap - http://wikimedia.se/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
