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Geolocated Wikipedia articles in Google Earth

Thursday, 26 October 2006, 14:28 | Category : Geodata

Here’s a neat idea – a Google Earth KML file of geolocated wikipedia articles. As you roam the Earth, see links to relevant articles popup. Might be even better as a dynamic link, so that Google Earth simply requests articles for the field of view, then it could stay updated, but still, a nice concept!

One Comment for “Geolocated Wikipedia articles in Google Earth”

  1. 1Barry Hunter

    wrote on 31 October 2006 at 1:16

    For dynamic link see:
    http://www.placeopedia.com/data/
    (ok so thats using a different ‘db’)

    or
    http://www.alder-digital.de/wiki/index.php/Wikipedia_in_GoogleEarth_%28en%29
    (linked from the page you posted ;) – hosted in wikipedia german I beleive weather it autoupdates from teh central db havnt a clue

    And I am sure made one with this:
    http://www.geonames.org/export/wikipedia-webservice.html#findNearbyWikipedia
    but cant find it now… (will make one if cant find it!)

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