OJ W wrote: >Sent: 11 February 2008 10:39 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [OSM-talk] Adding maps to wikipedia articles > >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_n >otes > > >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/w >ikipediaMaps.pl > > >so now the debate could be: do we want to? > > >regards, > >OJW > > > >[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Collaboration_with_Wikipedia > >
I think it would be great to have OSM mapping more widely distributed, however I'd be concerned that if this is a static process maps could end up on wikipedia which are constantly out of date because they are very much work in progress. Would there be a way to trigger automatic regeneration of maps? Perhaps on a monthly basis or something. Cheers Andy _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
