Ray Saintonge (saintonge@telus.net) [050115 06:11]:
Magnus Manske wrote:
For those of you interested in automatic map generation for MediaWiki, check out the very first screenshot of my emerging "geo" software: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Geo
This question makes me regret that I don't have the technical skills to develop my own vision of a map project that would be subject to the principles of wiki editing, notably that anybody can edit any map. Thus:
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discussion of this topic so far, it's that it has been infected by a lot of in-the-box kind of thinking. A map project has a far greater potential if we look at it from the ground up, and avoid the more limited popular focus on the role of maps.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/ is trying to put together an open-content map for the UK. (Whereas US maps are public domain, UK ones are all owned by Ordnance Survey.) They might be quite interested. (They gave a presentation at Dorkbot London and used Wikipedia as their proof of concept ;-)
(Dorkbot: "Poeple doing strange things with electricity": http://www.dorkbot.org/)
- d.