[OSM-talk] Adding maps to wikipedia articles

Andy Robinson (blackadder) blackadderajr at googlemail.com
Tue Feb 12 09:41:33 GMT 2008


OJ W wrote:
>Sent: 11 February 2008 10:39 PM
>To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: [OSM-talk] Adding maps to wikipedia articles
>
>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
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>
>we can download each of the wiki pages and look for geotags in them.
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_OpenStreetMap/OJW_list_n
>otes
>
>
>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:
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>http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:OpenStreetMap_render_Banstead.png
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>
>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:
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>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ashford%2C_Surrey
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>
>There is some software available which can do all of the above:
>
>http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/applications/rendering/forWikipedia/w
>ikipediaMaps.pl
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>
>so now the debate could be: do we want to?
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>
>regards,
>
>OJW
>
>
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>[1]  http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Collaboration_with_Wikipedia
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>

I think it would be great to have OSM mapping more widely distributed,
however I'd be concerned that if this is a static process maps could end up
on wikipedia which are constantly out of date because they are very much
work in progress. Would there be a way to trigger automatic regeneration of
maps? Perhaps on a monthly basis or something.

Cheers

Andy






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