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?
The last time I looked at it, the maps Grass produced looked _really_ bad, along the lines of the quality of maps I could view on my Apple ][ in the mid-1980s. Simple color schemes, no shading, lots of aliasing, etc. There are a few such auto-generated maps in Wikipedia, and they generally look pretty bad too---much worse than the maps we have from other sources, including some Wikipedian-created maps.
Has this gotten any better? Ideally I'd love such a solution, but it'd have to produce results that looked reasonably good.
-Mark