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

[Andy Mabbett]

On 25 August 2013 18:39, Andy Mabbett <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
>> Considering this for finding a Wikipedia layer on maps, I do not know any. But I do know there is an open source alternative, just like Wikipedia, but then for maps, OpenStreetMap.
>
> OSM won't do something like that, but invite others (which might be
> WMF or our community) to use their data to create such services.
>
> In fact, Kolossos has done so:
>
>    http://toolserver.org/~kolossos/openlayers/kml-on-ol.php?lat=51.52214&lon=-0.06012&zoom=10&lang=de&layers=B00TT
>
> but that seems to be using an out-of-date or otherwise in complete
> data set - even so, switch (under "Optionen") to English (for greatest
> coverage) or your language of choice.


[l'll move over to that maps list, but only fair to post this correction here]

Kolossos has provided a better URL for his tools, which is up-to-date,
and very impressive:

 http://toolserver.org/~kolossos/openlayers/kml-on-ol.php?lat=51.52214&lon=-0.06012&zoom=10&lang=en


-- 
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk