Alfio Puglisi schrieb:
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Magnus Manske wrote:
Well, if there is a central, open-source (software and data), editable-by-anyone solution that we can just plug into MediaWiki, great, let's do it. Otherwise I say: GIS? So what? ;-)
Some experimental work was done by Taw:
Yes, that's the one that was shown and discussed on the developer meeting at 21C3. The one consisting of three different parts in different programming languages. And the underlying data has to be fixed manually anyway, as it contains numerous errors.
Again, I am not trying to push my 'ware here. I am just proposing to have a (rather simple) PHP script and a wikimedia project with lots of volunteers to do the work (in this case, data collecting and -structuring, not writing articles)
If you (the list) think this is worth exploring, I could try and get some more detailed data for a *real* demonstration. If you think it is a waste of time, I won't. Either way, tell me! :-)
Magnus