On 8/13/07, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
Well, databases of real world information sounds like the sort of thing that's in our (institutional our) scope - Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikisource...we don't have a free-content map project at the moment, but that may be due to the prohibitive pricing of launching the Wikimedia satellite.
Thankfully the US government has done a lot of the work for us.
Check this out: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~dschwen/wikiminiatlas/
(click on the globe)
Try zooming in.
Okay, not as cool as google earth. But it's free, it's by one of us so we can integrate it and customize it, and it's full of our data.