[OSM-talk] wikipedia: towns/cities pages include a osm-direct-link

[Andy Allan]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:10 AM, colliar <colliar4ever at aol.com> wrote:

> Please tell me if I am wrong !?
>
> As we are working together with wikipedia, it would be nice to include
> direct-links to osm or even a small part of the map to the city/town pages.
>
> I think this would be a good promotion towards osm.
> I am not much into editing wikipedia but I just wanted to get the ball rolling.

There's an existing project within the Wikimedia foundation to
integrate OpenStreetMap maps into wikipedia (and presumably other
Wikimedia projects). They have hardware already, and are in the
process of setting up development machines ("toolservers" in Wikimedia
term) and looking at getting map servers into the Wikimedia production
clusters.

They have a mailing list for discussions, and if it's something you're
interested in then I'd suggest joining them there.
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l

Cheers,
Andy