On 18/11/2007, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
For fun: http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=244
Morwen mentioned this to me down the pub this evening :-) She is carefully avoiding getting anywhere near the code, 'cos she codes for a living and wikis are for *fun*, i.e. *content* [1]. But she says that the open mappers don't have anything like the tools we have merely with MediaWiki, and it requires good coders to want to get into the depths of coding something up.
- d.
[1] she's very aware of the case of Tim Starling, who joined Wikipedia to write about physics and ended up swapping lead and deputy lead duty with Brion on the code and systems.
- d.