colliar <colliar4e...@aol.com> wrote: >As we are working together with wikipedia, it would be nice to include >direct-links to osm or even a small part of the map to the city/town pages.
This is already done in the beta version of Wikipedia. You can run it if you have got a Wikipedia account. Every given coordinate in an Wikipeida article has got an OSM-link now, which will open an embedded OSM-map. >I think this would be a good promotion towards osm. >I am not much into editing wikipedia but I just wanted to get the ball rolling. The german OSM and german Wikipedia each has got 3 high-end servers for OSM-applications. On the FOSSGIS 2010 with included OSM congress, which ended yesterday, the developers of both projects together performed a workshop concerning that stuff: http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2010/events/113.de.html They told us, that there are many things on the road, like i.e. maps in every Wikipedia language. For this application the name:language: tag will be important. The advantage is, that you can read i.e russian or chinese parts of OSM maps in latin letters or vice versa. I.e. here is a tool by one of the developers in order to establish a multilingual country-list: http://toolserver.org/~mazder/multilingual-country-list/ Furthermore the free multimedia database Wikimedia Commons is now integrated into OSM. That means, that every photo you can find in Wikipedia articles you can embed in OSM-Wiki article as well. Here is an OSM Wiki example with many Commons photos embedded: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DE:Tag:highway%3Dtrunk Vice versa OSM people can upload their (georeferenced) photos at the free multimedia database Wikimedia Commons now: http://commons.wikimedia.org The developers also think about integrating the georeferenced Commons photos into an OSM map as it is known from Google Maps together with http://www.panoramio.com/. As you can see, the ball is rolling. :-) _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
