On 25 August 2013 18:39, Andy Mabbett <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. > > OSM won't do something like that, but invite others (which might be > WMF or our community) to use their data to create such services. > > In fact, Kolossos has done so: > > > http://toolserver.org/~kolossos/openlayers/kml-on-ol.php?lat=51.52214&lon=-0.06012&zoom=10&lang=de&layers=B00TT > > but that seems to be using an out-of-date or otherwise in complete > data set - even so, switch (under "Optionen") to English (for greatest > coverage) or your language of choice.
[l'll move over to that maps list, but only fair to post this correction here] Kolossos has provided a better URL for his tools, which is up-to-date, and very impressive: http://toolserver.org/~kolossos/openlayers/kml-on-ol.php?lat=51.52214&lon=-0.06012&zoom=10&lang=en -- 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>
