[Wikipedia-l] map namespace?

[Stephen Gilbert]

--- Brion VIBBER <brion at pobox.com> wrote:
> Lars Aronsson wrote:
> > Magnus Manske wrote:
> >>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).
> > 
> > Please tell me when you remember the URL.
> 
> I dug around some more; the software Caltrop has
> been using is GMT 
> (Generic Map Tools; http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/)
> via the on-line map 
> creator at
> http://www.aquarius.geomar.de/omc/omc_intro.html
> 
> With some tweaking, I believe we could get
> attractive, useful maps (at 
> least at the national level) using the same
> software, which we can run 
> off our own server so as not to be dependent on a
> third party which may 
> vanish or cut off service.

Beautiful. I officially change my vote to "I love it".

Stephen G.

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