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Wikimedia Extension for GeoRSS Support in Wikis
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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.
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Wikipedia for Google Earth, WikiSearch Tool and Wiki Maps 2 comments
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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.
Application Domains: 500,000+ Mapped Wikipedia Entries via Geonames.org
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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.
Industry: Semantic Layers v0.1 Released
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Matt Williamson writes "Semantic Layers, a new mapping extension for MediaWiki, has just had its initial release. Semantic Layers provides a way to easily embed OpenLayers maps in a wiki article, allows wiki contributors to easily add georeferencing data to articles, and enables basic but powerful querying of wiki based geodata. It extends the functionality of Semantic MediaWiki to allow MediaWiki to act as a spatially aware wiki database. Semantic Layers has an available demo wiki, where you can also download the extension and view the documentation." See also very related stories below.
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