[Wikipedia-l] map namespace?

Mon Oct 21 19:32:27 UTC 2002

Magnus Manske wrote:

> Would there be interest in/nned for a "map:" namespace which returns a
> map image of given coordinates?
>
> For a country, city, region, river, lake, mountain etc. one would type,
> say, "[[map:1.2.3:4.5.6]]" to get a rectangular map. That would be
> generated by some free map service (there are some, though I don't
> remember any URL).
> That would avoid the copy'n'paste action of current maps on wikipedia,
> and save disk space ;-)
>
> I thought I'd better ask before I try implementing...

Labeled how? In what language? With what borders? Showing how much 
detail? Political? Topographic?

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)