http://openstreetmap.org - is just a starting point to OSM - it has no layers at all. OSM in general is a database with various map data. You can render this data as you wish. On http://www.openstreetmap.org you have several renders which you can switch - the basic one is called mapnik. You cannot render everything as the map would be difficuilt to read. Among others there is a key in OSM data schema which let you link the objects (points, roads and areas) to the relevant Wikipedia articiles.
See: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:wikipedia Many OSM mappers actually add this key to many objects. http://openstreetmap.org does not show this key just because it is minor, extra thing for a general-purpose map, but you can create your own render and use it on your own website and many websites are actually using OSM data in various ways. See: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/List_of_OSM_based_Services Actually we are doing this - see: OSM extention for MediaWiki and MiniWikiAtlas. There is even a project page on OSM wiki regarding cooperation with Wikipedia: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Collaboration_with_Wikipedia Read it - and if you have any good ideas - just tell the people - or better - try to implement it ;-) 2013/8/25 Romaine Wiki <[email protected]>: > Google is throwing the Wikipedia layer out of Google Maps under the guise of > "improvement", while it actually sets several steps back in time. It is like > going to the Middle Ages instead of the future. It shows that commercial > companies do not make decisions by looking what people like, need and want, > but let the end users down. In the past such changes in software always was a > moment for me to consider if there are alternatives and if possible to switch > over to them. > > Considering this for finding a Wikipedia layer on maps, I do not know any. > But I do know there is an open source alternative, just like Wikipedia, but > then for maps, OpenStreetMap. > > We already work together in some way, we use the maps of OpenStreetMap in our > Toolserver maps when we click on the coordinates on articles. > > Unfortunately I couldn't find any layer for Wikipedia on > http://openstreetmap.org > > I think it would be good if we as Wikimedia would broaden our use of and > connections with OpenStreetMap and let both communities work together more. > > (It is unlikely to happen I think, but OpenStreetMap would be perfectly under > the wing of WMF, just as Wikivoyage.) > > We should strive on working together with OpenStreetMap, we supplement each > other. > > > Romaine > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> -- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
