[Foundation-l] Projekt GALILEO (Wikipedia with Geographical information)

[Jakob Voss]

Hi,

As some of you already may have noticed there is the "First European 
Idea Competition of the Satellite Navigation" called "GALILEO Masters 
2004" [1]. Stefan Richter announced the idea to participate. Only 
european companies are allowed so Wikimedia Germany or freiheit.com [2] 
(the company where Stefan Richter works) would apply. Deadline is Friday 
the 30th of this month. To participate you have to fill in a 
questionaire [3] and you may add up to two images.

We already have most of the proposal and a discussion with collections 
of ideas [4] - the latter mostly in German but the proposal is the most 
important.

Missing tasks:

* We need the cooperation of Wikimedia Foundation and the community
* Who should participate (the competition is aimed to small companies so 
maybe freiheit.com would be good choice for a cooperation)?
* Formulating the missing answers
* Perfecting all the answers
* Two images for demonstration purpose (I drew [5] but some fictious 
screenshots may be more suasive)
* Summarizing and translating the discussion and the ideas (mainly for 
us and later)

Everybody is invited to participate until next wendsday (deadline). 
Please try to seperate discussion and proposals or summaries. We should 
have a conclusive concept before starting to implement anything. I am 
sure that we will have the most useful database of free annotated 
geographical data in two years! There are applications most of the 
normal internet or encyclopedia reader has not even dreamed of. Let's go 
for it!

Jakob

[1] http://www.galileo-masters.com
[2] http://www.freiheit.com
[3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GALILEO_Masters_2004/Questionaire
[4] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:GALILEO_Masters_2004
[5] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:GALILEOArchitecture.png