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. > > 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. > > Thanks, > Andrei
They use the dumps, and they reported some time ago to do so about once a month. For other questions, you could try contacting with Jason. See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/31954 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
