On 6/5/07, para wikipara@gmail.com wrote:
Nick Jenkins wrote:
Just thinking out loud here, but are we using our photographs in
Commons to maximum advantage?
User:Para has also created something that works with Google Earth, which I haven't yet tried out: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~para/GeoCommons/
People, take a look at the screenshot at http://tools.wikimedia.de/~para/GeoCommons/GeoCommons.jpg to see what's available right now.
That is very cool. It's very close to what I was imagining as the
best-case scenario.
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My two "... and a pony" blue-sky wishlist items would be:
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All these technologies have their limitations: Google Maps doesn't support dynamic retrieval of data, Google Earth doesn't support client side programming or real user interaction with the server
And neither of them are free content. OSM, on the other hand, is under by-sa 2.0: http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?mlat=51.5051631373556&mlon=-0.07...
Anthony