Magnus Manske wrote:
Brion VIBBER wrote:
Labeled how? In what language? With what borders? Showing how much detail? Political? Topographic?
The language would be the one of the wikipedia used, as far as the map service aupports that, or English. Level of detail probably depends on the map service. Political and topographic could be an option, with the default on both.
I think these can be solved one way or another. More important questions would be: Is there a map service we could use? One that releases the generated maps in the PD, or for educational purposes? Shouldn't there be one? :-)
There's whatever Caltrop uses to create maps such as for http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carriacou or http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut
Personally I think they're hideous and very difficult to read.
If you think it's ("it is"?) a stupid idea, just say so ;-)
I have my doubts that you could get useful and attractive maps out of such a system. If you can prove me wrong though, I'd be happy as a clam. (How happy _is_ a clam, exactly?)
On a sidenote, a question on the German list reminded me: What ever happened to that "wiki code unification" (or whatever it was called), where external links were like [[http://www.google.com%7Cgoogle]] ??
Mmm, I don't think anything ever happened. But it's a good idea.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)