--- Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
There is indeed funding for WikiData. Programming will start within two weeks. WikiData will be a buildingblock within the MediaWiki software. It will indeed enable new projects.
Initially there are two prime candidates for Wikidata: Wiktionary and Wikispecies. The implementation of "the ultimate wiktionary" is part of the implementation of Wikidata.
For Wikimaps to work, a single record would need to be IDd as being associated with a particular point, line, polygon, or raster coordinate feature. That record would contain one to many fields of user-inputable and human readable data. Developing a way to tie that into a true wiki-editable GIS (meaning users could move points, lines, and polygons; since rasters are effectively images, editing them will be difficult) will require a separate module (call that the WikiGIS module if you like). That module would also need to support exporting to popular GIS formats, such as shapefiles and geodatabases.
-- mav
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