Just looking at an idea for adding maps to wikipedia articles...
Starting with a list of towns that we have reasonably-well mapped, such as: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Towns_in_Surrey we can download each of the wiki pages and look for geotags in them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_OpenStreetMap/OJW_list_notes Once we know where the town is, we can either render a map of it, or create an SVG map, or create a template with some new mediawiki extension[1]. In this example, I just downloaded (automatically, of course) an image from [EMAIL PROTECTED], and uploaded it to wikimedia commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:OpenStreetMap_render_Banstead.png Once a map is available, we don't necessarily want to force it onto the wikipedia article just yet. But we can leave a message on the talk page saying that a map is available, showing what it looks like, and giving instructions how to use it in the article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ashford%2C_Surrey There is some software available which can do all of the above: http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/applications/rendering/forWikipedia/wikipediaMaps.pl so now the debate could be: do we want to? regards, OJW [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Collaboration_with_Wikipedia
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