Strainu wrote:
Hi,
I was wondering if anyone here knows how often does Google update their Wikipedia layer for Google Earth and how do they get the data? I mean, they use the geo templates in the articles, but do they parse a wikipedia dump or they use a crawler or some other method.
I'm not sure if Wikimedia has anything to do with it, but I think I have a better chance of getting an answer here than by asking Google (the company) directly. Google (the search engine) was not really helpful on the matter.
Thanks, Andrei
They use the dumps, and they reported some time ago to do so about once a month. For other questions, you could try contacting with Jason.
See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/31954