Just looking at an idea for adding maps to wikipedia articles...<br><br><br>Starting with a list of towns that we have reasonably-well mapped, such as:<br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Towns_in_Surrey">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Towns_in_Surrey</a><br>
<br><br>we can download each of the wiki pages and look for geotags in them. <br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_OpenStreetMap/OJW_list_notes">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_OpenStreetMap/OJW_list_notes</a><br>
<br><br>Once we know where the town is, we can either render a map of it, or create an <br>SVG map, or create a template with some new mediawiki extension[1]. <br><br><br>In this example, I just downloaded (automatically, of course) an image from tiles@home,<br>
and uploaded it to wikimedia commons:<br><br><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:OpenStreetMap_render_Banstead.png">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:OpenStreetMap_render_Banstead.png</a><br><br><br>Once a map is available, we don't necessarily want to force it onto the wikipedia article <br>
just yet. But we can leave a message on the talk page saying that a map is available,<br>showing what it looks like, and giving instructions how to use it in the article:<br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ashford%2C_Surrey">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ashford%2C_Surrey</a><br>
<br><br>There is some software available which can do all of the above:<br><br><a href="http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/applications/rendering/forWikipedia/wikipediaMaps.pl">http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/applications/rendering/forWikipedia/wikipediaMaps.pl</a><br>
<br><br>so now the debate could be: do we want to?<br><br><br>regards,<br><br>OJW<br><br><br><br>[1] <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Collaboration_with_Wikipedia">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Collaboration_with_Wikipedia</a><br>
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