[Wikipedia-l] map namespace?

[Stephen Gilbert]

--- Magnus Manske <magnus.manske at epost.de> wrote:
> Would there be interest in/nned for a "map:"
> namespace which returns a 
> map image of given coordinates?
> 
> For a country, city, region, river, lake, mountain
> etc. one would type, 
> say, "[[map:1.2.3:4.5.6]]" to get a rectangular map.
> That would be 
> generated by some free map service (there are some,
> though I don't 
> remember any URL).
> That would avoid the copy'n'paste action of current
> maps on wikipedia, 
> and save disk space ;-)

Would it be generated each time the page was viewed?
You mentioned it would "save disk space".

I don't think it's a good idea to rely on an external
service in that way. It seems just as easy to do the
ol' copy and paste, and then have the map image hosted
by us. Also, I'm wary of adding features in general.
:)

Stephen G.

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