RE: [backstage] Wikipedia Latt/Longs
Wow that's a awesome find! Good stuff, but I would have thought the KML file would be easier to work on because its simply XML right? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason CartwrightSent: 31 October 2006 15:20To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.ukSubject: [backstage] Wikipedia Latt/Longs http://www.webkuehn.de/hobbys/wikipedia/geokoordinaten/index_en.htm What a goldmine - all the latt/longs extracted from Wikipedia and compiled into a CSV. J Jason Cartwright Client Side Developer -CBBC Interactive [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desk: (0208 57) 59487 Mobile: 07976500729 "Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here" - Ray Bradbury
RE: [backstage] Wikipedia Latt/Longs
So it is... a KMZ is a zipped KML, which is a whole hunk of loverly parsable XML (in this case 32mb of it). I didn't know that. Nice. J From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian ForresterSent: 01 November 2006 10:34To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.ukSubject: RE: [backstage] Wikipedia Latt/Longs Wow that's a awesome find! Good stuff, but I would have thought the KML file would be easier to work on because its simply XML right? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason CartwrightSent: 31 October 2006 15:20To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.ukSubject: [backstage] Wikipedia Latt/Longs http://www.webkuehn.de/hobbys/wikipedia/geokoordinaten/index_en.htm What a goldmine - all the latt/longs extracted from Wikipedia and compiled into a CSV. J Jason Cartwright Client Side Developer -CBBC Interactive [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desk: (0208 57) 59487 Mobile: 07976500729 "Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here" - Ray Bradbury
RE: [backstage] Wikipedia Latt/Longs
It's not just lat and longs, but you can use the height above sea-leveltoo: Freeview transmitters: http://www.ukfree.tv/kmls.php UK analogue shutdown/digital switchover tour: http://www.ukfree.tv/kmla.php Brian Butterworth www.ukfree.tv From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason CartwrightSent: 01 November 2006 10:54To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.ukSubject: RE: [backstage] Wikipedia Latt/Longs So it is... a KMZ is a zipped KML, which is a whole hunk of loverly parsable XML (in this case 32mb of it). I didn't know that. Nice. J From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian ForresterSent: 01 November 2006 10:34To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.ukSubject: RE: [backstage] Wikipedia Latt/Longs Wow that's a awesome find! Good stuff, but I would have thought the KML file would be easier to work on because its simply XML right? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason CartwrightSent: 31 October 2006 15:20To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.ukSubject: [backstage] Wikipedia Latt/Longs http://www.webkuehn.de/hobbys/wikipedia/geokoordinaten/index_en.htm What a goldmine - all the latt/longs extracted from Wikipedia and compiled into a CSV. J Jason Cartwright Client Side Developer -CBBC Interactive [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desk: (0208 57) 59487 Mobile: 07976500729 "Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here" - Ray Bradbury --No virus found in this incoming message.Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.13.21/509 - Release Date: 31/10/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.13.21/509 - Release Date: 31/10/2006
Re: [backstage] Wikipedia Latt/Longs
GeoRSS might be an even better format to work with, since it's can refer to each Wikipedia article in a well defined chunk (an RSS item or Atom entry)Placeopedia, a similar effort from mySociety, offers GeoRSS [http://www.placeopedia.com/data/]It's also should be noted that the copyright status of these geotagged pages is not clear. Most all of the Wikipedia geotagged pages (and all of Placeopedia)are derived works of Google Maps .. ie the location is derived from navigating through Google Maps data. Who owns the resulting geotags ..Google, their data providers, or the users? -Mikel- Original Message From: Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.ukSent: Wednesday, November 1, 2006 10:33:52 AMSubject: RE: [backstage] Wikipedia Latt/Longs Wow that's a awesome find! Good stuff, but I would have thought the KML file would be easier to work on because its simply XML right? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason CartwrightSent: 31 October 2006 15:20To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.ukSubject: [backstage] Wikipedia Latt/Longs http://www.webkuehn.de/hobbys/wikipedia/geokoordinaten/index_en.htm What a goldmine - all the latt/longs extracted from Wikipedia and compiled into a CSV. J Jason Cartwright Client Side Developer -CBBC Interactive [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desk: (0208 57) 59487 Mobile: 07976500729 "Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here" - Ray Bradbury
[backstage] Wikipedia Latt/Longs
http://www.webkuehn.de/hobbys/wikipedia/geokoordinaten/index_en.htm What a goldmine - all the latt/longs extracted from Wikipedia and compiled into a CSV. J Jason Cartwright Client Side Developer -CBBC Interactive [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desk: (0208 57) 59487 Mobile: 07976500729 "Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here" - Ray Bradbury
