"The new Google Maps simplified navigation and removed many useful features... Layers like Wikipedia, weather, webcams, photos, videos, previous searches are no longer available, while transit, traffic and bicycling can be found in the "getting around" box." http://googlesystem.blogspot.nl/2013/05/the-new-google-maps-now-available.html
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 23:45:12 +0100 From: Andy Mabbett <[email protected]> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] The failure of Google, looking for open source alternatives On 25 August 2013 23:33, Andy Mabbett <[email protected]> wrote: >> this is one point where WMF _may_ be able to help, > > We already have Special:Nearby I've started a discussion on en.Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Nearby_.26_replacing_Google_Maps.27_Wikipedia_layer Please feel free to point to it from a suitable page on Meta, or elsewhere -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
