On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9/8/09 3:56 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: >> 2009/9/8 Pedro Sanchez<[email protected]>: >>> Geographical/atlas/map kind ofproject >>> >>> granted, there's wikimapia and other external equivalents >>> but we (Wikimedia) are lacking it >> >> Is there any point us doing something that already exists? What would >> be better about a Wikimedia version? > > Our current direction is to coordinate with external resources rather > than create them from scratch, where we've got compatible goals and ideals. > > For instance, rather than creating our own map system from scratch we're > working with OpenStreetMap to integrate mapping, using our own rendering > servers with a copy of the public data and making it easier to stick > maps in wiki pages for starters, with easier ways to get into the > upstream system to improve location name translations and mapping data.
I have been following the map-l and openstreetmap closely. There was a status report posted just recently: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/maps-l/2009-September/000270.html http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Geographical_coordinates Also there is a big discussion on the idea that wikipedia data can be imported into openstreetmap, because supposedly the coordinates from Wikipedia are copied from non free sources.: http://www.nabble.com/Wikipedia-POI-import--td23392791.html In my opinion, What is really missing for example is the ability to find all the articles that occur in a geographic location. I would like to see all the articles about Beijing for example, but it is not easy. Google provides some of this, but it could be better. On a different dimension, time not space : another project that I would like to see it a WikiTimeLine It would be great to be able to extract all the data references out of the wikipedia articles and put the on a time line. mike http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mdupont _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
