[Wikimedia-l] The failure of Google, looking for open source alternatives

[Romaine Wiki]

"The new Google Maps simplified navigation and removed many useful features... Layers like Wikipedia, weather, webcams, photos, videos, previous searches are no longer available, while transit, traffic and bicycling can be found in the "getting around" box." 
http://googlesystem.blogspot.nl/2013/05/the-new-google-maps-now-available.html


 
 Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 23:45:12 +0100
 From: Andy Mabbett <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk>
 To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
 Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] The failure of
 Google,    looking for open
     source alternatives
   
 On 25 August 2013 23:33, Andy Mabbett <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk>
 wrote:
 >> this is one point where WMF _may_ be able to help,
 >
 > We already have Special:Nearby
 
 I've started a discussion on en.Wikipedia:
 
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Nearby_.26_replacing_Google_Maps.27_Wikipedia_layer
 
 Please feel free to point to it from a suitable page on
 Meta, or elsewhere
 
 -- 
 Andy Mabbett
 @pigsonthewing
 http://pigsonthewing.org.uk