Google maps with Wikipedia and Photos

Yesterday I wrote blog entry about Live Maps and Wikipedia... I really like mesh ups (using existing data sources), so I just wanted to check if this isnt supported also by Google Maps.

Google Maps supports Wikipedia - and result is far better then Live Maps implementation (which feels like beta).

To test it, just go to maps.google.com, search for any location.

Then click on More button (upper-right) and select Wikipedia (and definitely try also Photos).

This is really REALLY nice and I love it :)

Published Wed, May 14 2008 14:12 by martin
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# re: Google maps with Wikipedia and Photos

Some notes:

- for Czech Republic I prefer http://maps.google.cz/ (more detailed)

- for playing with maps you can use also any scripting language via gdata package (python-gdata for python, etc.)

- try kml code.google.com/.../documentation

you can create your own "layers" with everything you can imagine

Wednesday, May 14, 2008 8:30 AM by MIchal Zugec