"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.ht...

Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 23:45:12 +0100 From: Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@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@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:

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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_r...

Please feel free to point to it from a suitable page on Meta, or elsewhere

-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk