On Oct 8, 2004, at 6:30 AM, Stirling Newberry wrote:
Using Grass and a postgres SQL database, it would be possible to create an open mapping repository. Since a large fraction of all wiki entries are locations, this would allow maps to be made for most of them, perhaps even by a bot process eventually.
Is there any such project in process? Is there any interest if there isn't such a project?
See: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Maps http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipediatlas http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimaps http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Map_generator
AFAIK no current activity.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)