[Openstreetmap] Linking in Wikipedia

[Nick Whitelegg]

Some of you might be aware that Freemap has the potential facility to look
up details on a place (town, village etc) by clicking on it on the map. I
was thinking, rather than rewriting descriptions of places from scratch, to
make use of Wikipedia entries on them instead. The idea would be to fetch
an entry from Wikipedia and display it in one of the <div>s of Freemap, to
provide a more seamless user experience than navigating externally to
Wikipedia.

Technically, this would be possible but it would involve parsing a rather
hairy hierarchy of <div>s on the Wikipedia content. Is anyone aware of any
plans by Wikipedia to provide entries as a concise XML description rather
than a full HTML page? I can see that having enormous potential.

Also, as long as I referenced Wikipedia I take it that this sort of thing
would be legal? I'm not fully up on the full implications of the FDL - how
would it impact on freemap as a whole? Would it mean the whole freemap site
would have to be FDL licenced?

Thanks,
Nick