See also: http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-July/033704.html http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GALILEO_Masters_2004
And the discussions surrounding the galileo-contest application. There are certainly many people interested in these ideas.
~sj
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 08:19:01 -0700, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
On Oct 8, 2004, at 6:30 AM, Stirling Newberry wrote:
Using Grass and a postgres SQL database, it would be possible to create an open mapping repository. Since a large fraction of all wiki entries are locations, this would allow maps to be made for most of them, perhaps even by a bot process eventually.
Is there any such project in process? Is there any interest if there isn't such a project?
See: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Maps http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipediatlas http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimaps http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Map_generator
AFAIK no current activity.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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