On 14/03/12 19:03, Max Semenik wrote:
Hi all,
I have beem loooking at the wikipedia database scheme and I haven't
found any field that suggest that some contents are geographical located.
Am I wrong?
If it is possible I would like to download the geographical located
contents of Wikipedia to do something similar to what googleearth does
with the wikipedia layer
Is that possible?
Thanks in advanced.
We are currently developing the GeoData extension[1] which
should
store page coordinates. We hope to deploy it sooner than later, but
have no clear ETA.
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[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GeoData
Hi Max,
Your project is the "longer-term solution" I was alluding to. It's a
excellent idea, will add significant desirable functionality and promote
longer term standardization, yet can be deployed without any disruption
to current working practices as a simple drop-in replacement at the
lowest level of the various current ad-hoc template mechanisms. I look
forward to seeing it deployed as soon as possible.
You might also want to take a look at the current work on attacking KML
files to articles on the English-language Wikipedia for some ideas about
where things might progress in the future beyond simple
point-of-interest coding. This approach could quite easily be
generalized to using KML files as a multi-purpose longer term extension
to the current coordinate coding mechansim.
-- Neil