Kevin Yang wrote:
> Hello ,
>
> i am trying to develop a mobile wikipedia product which utilize the
> GPS data. I noticed that google maps have a button "more -> wikipedia"
> which will show wikipedia articles near a specific location . I am
> curious how that works?
>
> Any tips/answers are highly appreciated. Thanks.
Wikipedia articles are geotagted usint the template
{{coord}}<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Coord>
Google maps parses the database dumps<http://download.wikimedia.org/> to
extract the locations. It was explained on wikitech-l, see the archives.
You can also see other implementations, such as
http://toolserver.org/~dschwen/wikiminiatlas/ on the toolserver and in
general the related
tools<http://toolserver.org/~interiot/cgi-bin/tstoc?sortby=hits&tag=geo>
The mediawiki api does not expose this data, but you may contact with
para or Dschwen as to how to query their tools for your app.
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