Wikipedia:WikiProject OpenStreetMap/Town maps

Introduction

Just looking at an idea for adding maps to wikipedia articles...

Starting with a list of towns that we have reasonably-well mapped, such as Category:Towns_in_Surrey

we can download each of the wiki pages and look for geotags in them. e.g. Wikipedia:WikiProject_OpenStreetMap/OJW_list_notes

Once we know where the town is, we can either render a map of it, or create an SVG map, or create a template with some new mediawiki extension [1].

In this example, the software just downloaded an image from tiles@home, and uploaded it to wikimedia commons

Main article: Wikipedia:WikiProject OpenStreetMap/Town maps rendering options

Adding to articles

Once a map is available, we don't necessarily want to force it onto the wikipedia article just yet. But we can leave a message on the talk page saying that a map is available, showing what it looks like, and giving instructions how to use it in the article:

The software

There is some software available which can do all of the above:

http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/applications/rendering/forWikipedia/wikipediaMaps.pl

Discussion

There may be some discussion on the mailing list as well as this page

See examples

Changes by the bot and uploaded images