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Wikipedia for Google Earth, WikiSearch Tool and Wiki Maps

posted by Satri on Monday April 17, @09:36AM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the when-collaboration-can-change-the-world dept.
Data Sharing Web Mapping Globalization Software
The Google Earth Blog discuss and provide links related to Wikipedia for Google Earth and WikiSearch tool. From the blog: "Apparently someone named Stefan Kuhn processed a database with about 34,000 wikipedia story locations and ranked them according to description file size. KASSPER then created a network link allowing you to view the locations as placemarks in Google Earth. [...] In the same GEC thread, KASSPER also posted a nifty web page tool for searching the Wikipedia database for locations." This topic is very dear to me. Numerous efforts are made towards Geo-enabled Wikis. Here's some links (including traditionnal wikis and geo-enabled wikis): giswiki.de traditionnal wiki and EOGeo FreeGISBook, Tikiwiki+Mapserver , WikiTravel, WorldKit GeoWiki. Keep in mind the OSGeo also has plans regarding this issue as previously discussed on their mailing list.

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All Points Blog links to Wikimapia.org. From the website: "WikiMapia is a project to describe the whole planet Earth. How to use: Just move the map to find interesting places, click on rectangles. To add an interesting place or object use Add New link. Note: Please only add places interesting to everyone. Who We Are: Wikimapia was created by Alexandre Koriakine and Evgeniy Saveliev, inspired by Google maps and Wikipedia. " The site looks very promising however, it is unknown if users will embrace this new tool.
Industry: ESRI Creating and Editing Articles on Wikipedia? 2 comments [+]
geognerd writes "I was looking at and making some minor edits to a few GIS-related topics on Wikipedia. Something in the edit history of those pages caught my eye. A user called "Redlands" has made 37 contributions to GIS articles since Sep 21 of this year. These articles range in subject from Jack Dangermond to ArcGIS Server. Many of the contributions include links to ESRI's website or projects they are affiliated with, like the National Geographic MapMachine.

"Redlands" is also the creator of the Wikipedia article for GIS Day and has made all of the edits thus far. The same holds true for the article on ArcWeb Services, ArcGIS Server, and ArcExplorer.

This is a curiosity. I wonder if "Redlands" is an ESRI insider, an employee of their marketing department, someone at the University of Redlands, or someone who just likes the name Redlands. Ethical questions could be raised if these articles were written by ESRI. For example, the edit by "Redlands" to the Spatial Data Analysis and Spatial Database articles contributed little more than a link to the ESRI Press website."
Comparison of GIS software in Wikipedia [+]
Spatially Adjusted links to the Comparison of GIS software wikipedia page. The table is incomplete and sometimes erroneous, but it's a good start. Knowledge sharing is always a good thing if you ask me. Remember, you can sort html tables using the TableTools Firefox extension. There's also the Wikipedia list of GIS software.
Application Domains: 500,000+ Mapped Wikipedia Entries via Geonames.org [+]
This unrelated Geobloggers entry lead me to the Geonames.org mapped Wikipedia entries page. See previous stories, including this Geonames.org as data provider story. From the website: "The Geonames database currently contains around 500'000 geolocated Wikipedia entries in 210 languages. A full text search over the georeferenced Wikipedia articles is available in English, German, French, Spanish and Polish. The data is also available as webservice : Wikipedia Webservice " A Slashgeo reader also shared this Google Maps extension for Wikimedia. Oh, and don't forget the great Geonames kml for Google Earth.
Wikimedia Extension for GeoRSS Support in Wikis [+]
The High Earth Orbit blog links to a wikimedia extension to add GeoRSS support in wikis, such as wikipedia. From the official website: "The GeoRSS plugin introduces an easy interface for geotagging MediaWiki articles, and publishes a GeoRSS feed of all mapped articles in the Wiki, for mapping and syndication. The extension has been deployed and is working well, but is in need of some care in packaging and clean up. That's the next step after initial posting here on mediawiki.org. Still, everything is documented below." The Map Room adds a link to the Google Maps Wikimedia extension. See related stories below. Update: 05/04 00:30 GMT by S : Ogle Earth adds the KML Export wikimedia extension to the bunch.
WikiMiniAtlas for MediaWiki [+]
galetrouge writes "I just found out about this MediaWiki Javascript plugin. Based on the MediaWiki page it seems to date back to August of this year. "WikiMiniAtlas is Javascript plugin to display a draggable, zoomable, and clickable worldmap in geocoded Wikipedia articles. The map contains links to all other geocoded articles in Wikipedia and can be magnified down to approximate 100m resolution worldwide. While it looks similar to GoogleMaps it is our own software and free data.". It is embedded inside the coord template, which is mainly used to geotag the wikipedia pages : "Clicking the blue globe activates the WikiMiniAtlas". On the contrary of the google map extension it is not permanent on the page but pops up upon request. Also it looks like they will embed OpenStreetMap.org data soon." I copied below previous stories on geo-plugins for mediawiki, wikipedia and such.
MapServer + Tikiwiki and An Update on GeoCMS Softwares [+]
Spatial Guru published an entry on an example of GeoCMS using MapServer and Tikiwiki, I realized Slashgeo has not discussed Geospatial Content Management Systems in a while. Searching the geoblogs reminded me of the GeoCMS wikipedia page and of these entries: Dan Karran on how GeoCMSs compare and the Drupal conference, and here's a recent entry on a Midgard example of GeoCMS in use, with OpenStreetMap and Plazes as lego blocks. Here's the OSGeo article on Tikiwiki as a GeoCMS. From this article: "Tikiwiki as a GeoCMS has been implemented in several countries9 and is becoming quite successful since MapServer PHP MapScript is quite stable with Apache. MapServer is an Open Geospatial Con- sortium (OGC) compliant Web Map Server (WMS), which means that many layers can be served over the internet to a wide range of map clients, provid- ing total integration." See also related stories below.
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