"The new Google Maps simplified navigation and removed many useful features... Layers
like Wikipedia, weather, webcams, photos, videos, previous searches are no longer
available, while transit, traffic and bicycling can be found in the "getting
around" box."
http://googlesystem.blogspot.nl/2013/05/the-new-google-maps-now-available.h…
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 23:45:12 +0100
From: Andy Mabbett <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk>
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] The failure of
Google, looking for open
source alternatives
On 25 August 2013 23:33, Andy Mabbett <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk>
wrote:
this is one
point where WMF _may_ be able to help,
We already have Special:Nearby
I've started a discussion on en.Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Nearby_.26_…
Please feel free to point to it from a suitable page on
Meta, or elsewhere
--
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk