Hi,
sorry for using English here, I don't speak German. I'm writing to ask if you've seen the http://www.openstreetmap.pl/wp/ project? (Please open in firefox only).

The goal of that project was pretty much the same and I think it has better coverage, so maybe we should cooperate. The Wikipedia overlay supports following tags:

* wikipedia=Title
* wikipedia=yes (this is often used in UK when name= value is same as page title)
* wikipedia:<lang>=Title
* wikipedia=<lang>:Title (this is a more popular form and it's more logical than wikipedia:<lang> because it doesn't suggest adding multiple languages -- we should not add multiple wikipedia languages to the same object)
* wikipedia=http://....
* url=, website= etc...
* flickr osm: machine tags
* dopplr,
* foursquare,

The advantage is that it translates wikipedia page titles to whatever language you choose by using the wiki interlinks, the full description of how this works is at http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-September/042960.html

There are also more zoom levels, showing different features and some features show up as lines or polygons. Unfortunately the data is outdated (from early December).

The main goal of this project was to encourage people to use the wikipedia=Title tags as well as wikipedia=<lang>:Title

Maybe we should join forces?

Hi,

no problem, I speak English too. (more or less) ;-)

I didn't know your project until now. It looks very good! Especially I like this smooth zoom and the points that zoom up while hovering.

A problem in my application is when an object has a wikipedia link only in one language. At the moment it isn't translated. But your map seems to do this very well.
Your map also has a better coverage, but isn't so actual.

I think we should cooperate to create one very good map. It's better than two good maps. ;-)
But maybe we could leave two separated projects and only give each other some hints and parts of the code.
So for example you give me your code to translate the wikipedia links, and you will get some parts of my project you need.


Alex

Hi,
yes, openstreetmap.pl/wp is rather outdated, I need to find a little time to improve the tile generation to not overflow the browser with data when there are too many points in view.

The point of the project was to show that it's useless to add more wikipedia languages than one, because if you link to any wikipedia language, the link is in reality made to a group of articles in different wikipedias. My mail from 2009 announcing it on the mailing list contains the details of how you can do this easily. You can also just use the javascript from my page, it's opensource.

Best regards

Hi,

yes it's one of my most important things to do, to translate wikipedia links into different languages, without tagging eah object with every lang version.
So I will try to implement your code. I will ask you if I need help to understand it, etc.
Of course I will mention you and your project in my acknowledgment here (at "Danksagungen"): http://olm.openstreetmap.de/info/index.html


Alex