Stockholm University already provides a Flash-based
zoomer.
What I wanted to achieve was the ability to link to a coordinate,
This is part one
of your question. Find out how if the zoomify viewer
of Stockholm university supports link parameters, that zoom and pan to
a specific location.
as part of an OpenStreetMap layer, from Wikipedia
articles
that have coordinates.
Huh?! Where does the OpenStreetMapLayer come into play
here?! I don't see that.
Here is a suggestion:
GoogleEarth supports tile-based overlays through KML files. This is
the closest thing to what I think you want to do (overlay the old maps
over new cartographic material). I don't see this happening in OSM
though.
Daniel