[Openstreetmap] Linking in Wikipedia

[Frank Mohr]

Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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> 
there are 2 similar projects, that link GoogleEarth
(and NASA World Wind) to Wikipedia

(sorry ... all in german)
Newsticker:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/61346
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/61605
And the Project Pages:
http://www.kartographie.uni-trier.de/p/h/users/sk/Google_Earth/google_earth_de_wikipedia.htm
http://www.polybos.de/

Wikipedia Georeferencing is on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Geographical_coordinates

	

	
		
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