[OSM-talk] Adding maps to wikipedia articles

[OJ W]

Just looking at an idea for adding maps to wikipedia articles...


Starting with a list of towns that we have reasonably-well mapped, such as:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Towns_in_Surrey


we can download each of the wiki pages and look for geotags in them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_OpenStreetMap/OJW_list_notes


Once we know where the town is, we can either render a map of it, or create
an
SVG map, or create a template with some new mediawiki extension[1].


In this example, I just downloaded (automatically, of course) an image from
tiles at home,
and uploaded it to wikimedia commons:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:OpenStreetMap_render_Banstead.png


Once a map is available, we don't necessarily want to force it onto the
wikipedia article
just yet.  But we can leave a message on the talk page saying that a map is
available,
showing what it looks like, and giving instructions how to use it in the
article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ashford%2C_Surrey


There is some software available which can do all of the above:

http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/applications/rendering/forWikipedia/wikipediaMaps.pl


so now the debate could be: do we want to?


regards,

OJW



[1]  http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Collaboration_with_Wikipedia
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