Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia Google Earth layer

2009-10-02 Thread Steve Bennett
On 10/3/09, Platonides wrote: > They use the dumps, and they reported some time ago to do so about once > a month. That'll teach me to speculate. Steve ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/li

[Wikitech-l] New York MediaWiki Users Group

2009-10-02 Thread Sergey Chernyshev
Hello to fellow MediaWiki hackers, I'm writing to let you know that Yaron Koren and finally decoded to organize New York MediaWiki Users Group: http://www.meetup.com/MediaWiki-New-York/ Events are going to be dedicated to various uses of MediaWiki on public web sites as well as enterprise. If you

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia Google Earth layer

2009-10-02 Thread Platonides
Strainu wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if anyone here knows how often does Google update > their Wikipedia layer for Google Earth and how do they get the data? I > mean, they use the geo templates in the articles, but do they parse a > wikipedia dump or they use a crawler or some other method. >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia Google Earth layer

2009-10-02 Thread Bilal Abdul Kader
I think Google applications use the data crawled from their own datbases and of course Google has almost all last updates of Wikipedia articles with all its information including the Geo addresses. bilal On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Tei wrote: > On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Roan Kattouw

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia Google Earth layer

2009-10-02 Thread Tei
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Roan Kattouw wrote: > 2009/10/2 Tei : >> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Strainu wrote: >> ... >>> I'm not sure if Wikimedia has anything to do with it, but I think I >>> have a better chance of getting an answer here than by asking Google >>> (the company) directl

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia Google Earth layer

2009-10-02 Thread Roan Kattouw
2009/10/2 Tei : > On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Strainu wrote: > ... >> I'm not sure if Wikimedia has anything to do with it, but I think I >> have a better chance of getting an answer here than by asking Google >> (the company) directly. Google (the search engine) was not really >> helpful on t

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia Google Earth layer

2009-10-02 Thread Simon Walker
2009/10/2 Tei : > you could always install Ethereal, I'm pretty sure ethereal was renamed to wireshark a while back... -- Regards, Simon Walker User:Stwalkerster on all public Wikimedia Foundation wikis Administrator on the English Wikipedia Developer of Helpmebot, the ACC tool, and Nubio 2 FAQ

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia Google Earth layer

2009-10-02 Thread Steve Bennett
On 10/2/09, Strainu wrote: > I was wondering if anyone here knows how often does Google update > their Wikipedia layer for Google Earth and how do they get the data? I > mean, they use the geo templates in the articles, but do they parse a > wikipedia dump or they use a crawler or some other m

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia Google Earth layer

2009-10-02 Thread Strainu
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Tei wrote: > On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Strainu wrote: > ... >> I'm not sure if Wikimedia has anything to do with it, but I think I >> have a better chance of getting an answer here than by asking Google >> (the company) directly. Google (the search engine) wa

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia Google Earth layer

2009-10-02 Thread Tei
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Strainu wrote: ... > I'm not sure if Wikimedia has anything to do with it, but I think I > have a better chance of getting an answer here than by asking Google > (the company) directly. Google (the search engine) was not really > helpful on the matter. you could al

[Wikitech-l] Wikipedia Google Earth layer

2009-10-02 Thread Strainu
Hi, I was wondering if anyone here knows how often does Google update their Wikipedia layer for Google Earth and how do they get the data? I mean, they use the geo templates in the articles, but do they parse a wikipedia dump or they use a crawler or some other method. I'm not sure if Wikimedia h