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