Sören Auer's Pediax is a "Geo-Browsing Google Maps mashup for Wikipedia". Here is a description from Sören: "..Pediax displays geo-referenced Wikipedia articles (currently over 50,000) on a Google map. It shows the 20 most popular places/articles in the currently selected map area. The popularity is derived from the Pediax page views. On moves or zooming of the map area the respective places/articles are updated. Also Pediax provides a user interface for Wikipedia, which is largely based on AJAX, thus enabling previews of images or referenced articles without reloading the current Wikipedia page, type-ahead searches and much more." It's a cool concept - the number of geo-referenced article shows up beside "All" - From there the top 20 from that number is displayed on the map. It's an interesting way to view a subsection of Wikipedia articles. More info about Pediax can be found here.
Other Wikipedia Mashups:
- Jotle (See recent post) - Recently updated to include Wikipedia support so now users can see a list of wiki articles about the selected place.
- GeoWalk
- Placeopedia
- GeoNames
3 comments:
You forgot Wikimapia!!
One of the best Google Maps API sites.. it just doesn't technically mash up with Wikipedia! :)
Hi,
there is another Wikipedia Mashup.
http://www.wikitude.org
You can do an address search for points of interest in your area. There are castles, battlefields, caves, ... quite interesting.
You can also download POI files for Google Earth and TomTom.
Jim
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