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Semantic Layers v0.1 Released
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Matt Williamson writes "Semantic Layers, a new mapping extension for MediaWiki, has just had its initial release. Semantic Layers provides a way to easily embed OpenLayers maps in a wiki article, allows wiki contributors to easily add georeferencing data to articles, and enables basic but powerful querying of wiki based geodata. It extends the functionality of Semantic MediaWiki to allow MediaWiki to act as a spatially aware wiki database. Semantic Layers has an available demo wiki, where you can also download the extension and view the documentation." See also very related stories below.
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Application Domains: 500,000+ Mapped Wikipedia Entries via Geonames.org
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This unrelated Geobloggers entry lead me to the Geonames.org mapped Wikipedia entries page. See previous stories, including this Geonames.org as data provider story. From the website: "The Geonames database currently contains around 500'000 geolocated Wikipedia entries in 210 languages.
A full text search over the georeferenced Wikipedia articles is available in English, German, French, Spanish and Polish.
The data is also available as webservice : Wikipedia Webservice " A Slashgeo reader also shared this Google Maps extension for Wikimedia. Oh, and don't forget the great Geonames kml for Google Earth.
Google Earth Adds Wikipedia and Other Layers 2 comments
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Google announced news layers in Google Earth, including a layer of Wikipedia entries. From the official blog: "The new Geographic Web layer we released today is one of those features. We've taken the rich data of Wikipedia, Panoramio, and the Google Earth Community and made a browsable layer in Google Earth. Now you can fly anywhere in the world and see what people have written about it, photographed, or posted."
Technology: Wikimedia Extension for GeoRSS Support in Wikis
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The High Earth Orbit blog links to a wikimedia extension to add GeoRSS support in wikis, such as wikipedia. From the official website: "The GeoRSS plugin introduces an easy interface for geotagging MediaWiki articles, and publishes a GeoRSS feed of all mapped articles in the Wiki, for mapping and syndication.
The extension has been deployed and is working well, but is in need of some care in packaging and clean up. That's the next step after initial posting here on mediawiki.org. Still, everything is documented below." The Map Room adds a link to the Google Maps Wikimedia extension. See related stories below. Update: 05/04 00:30 GMT by S : Ogle Earth adds the KML Export wikimedia extension to the bunch.
Semantic Layers v0.2 Released
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A new version of Semantic Layers (0.2), the OpenLayers-based mapping extension for MediaWiki, has been released, with the following features:
- Google Maps imagery support
- #slmap: parser function now stable
- Quick and easy single-point map generation
- SMW Service links supported
- New Special:MapPoint page
- Smarter defaults
- Other minor improvements
- Minor bug fixes
Semantic Layers v0.1 Released
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