Looks great! I believe there is something similar already in use for categories? You can click to get all co-ordinate marked articles in a category showing up on a map. Now I just need to find a category where that is in use...
Here is an example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Capitals_in_Europe Appears to be the kml export tool by para? Seem to be more options at this template: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:GeoGroupTemplate Carcharoth On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Magnus Manske <magnusman...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > just toolspamming my latest... > > I read the announcement for "Britain Loves Wikipedia", was sad to find > no museum in or immediately around my place participates, and tried to > look for the nearest one. Harder than it sounds, if you're not very > familiar with British geography. > > So I wrote a tool to show all "related" places. > > First, you need a wikipedia page that links to all the objects you are > potentially interested in. I quickly made [1]. > Then, go to my new tool [2] and enter that location there. Click on the > button. > Then, you get a link to a google maps page (shortened at [3]). > > Which is when I realized there is potential for more. Wanna see places > important to The Beatles? Go [4]! > > Enjoy! > > Magnus > > P.S.: I couldn't quickly figure out how to do the same for > openstreetmaps. If anyone could point me to that... > > P.P.S.: Yes, using backlinks are an option as well. Is there interest in that? > > [1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/BLW > [2] http://toolserver.org/~magnus/related_places.php > [3] http://tinyurl.com/ycncg2f > [4] http://tinyurl.com/y92rgo2 > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
