On 8/13/07, Rob Church <robchur(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Well, databases of real world information sounds like
the sort of
thing that's in our (institutional our) scope - Wikipedia, Wiktionary,
Wikibooks, Wikisource...we don't have a free-content map project at
the moment, but that may be due to the prohibitive pricing of
launching the Wikimedia satellite.
Thankfully the US government has done a lot of the work for us.
Check this out:
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~dschwen/wikiminiatlas/
(click on the globe)
Try zooming in.
Okay, not as cool as google earth. But it's free, it's by one of us so
we can integrate it and customize it, and it's full of our data.