Add-on:Wikipedia

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The Wikipedia layer consists of hotspots with click-through links to relevant Wikipedia articles.

The current version is a snapshot from March 4, 2005, with 572 points.

Links to geographical coordinates is a new thing in Wikipedia, so the availability of points is as of yet pretty sparse in most areas.

Sorry, there is no intaller just yet. To install, unpack the ZIP file and run install.bat.

The ZIP file is available from ftp://ftp.kvaleberg.com/pub/Wikipedia.zip

See also WikiProject Geographical coordinates. And

Feedback to: egil at kvaleberg.no

Developments

This is really a proof-of-concept at the time being.

Some things to consider:

  • The hotspots really need to be categorized. Especially true the more points there are.
  • The map scale from Wikipedia probably should probably be reflected in visbility-from-altitude.
  • The number of points from Wikipedia will soon reach several thousands. Perhaps the XML format is not suitable?
  • Various things in the XML has just been inherited from other layes, and probably needs to be looked at.
  • Is it possible to have a text appear in addition to the icon for the hotspot?
  • I'm sure there are efficiency issues.
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