Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia Google Earth layer

2009-10-03 Thread Strainu
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 3:41 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/3/09, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: They use the dumps, and they reported some time ago to do so about once  a month. That'll teach me to speculate. I guess so :) Thanks for the info, Platonides. I'll

[Wikitech-l] Wikipedia Google Earth layer

2009-10-02 Thread Strainu
Hi, I was wondering if anyone here knows how often does Google update their Wikipedia layer for Google Earth and how do they get the data? I mean, they use the geo templates in the articles, but do they parse a wikipedia dump or they use a crawler or some other method. I'm not sure if Wikimedia

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia Google Earth layer

2009-10-02 Thread Tei
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote: ... I'm not sure if Wikimedia has anything to do with it, but I think I have a better chance of getting an answer here than by asking Google (the company) directly. Google (the search engine) was not really helpful on the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia Google Earth layer

2009-10-02 Thread Strainu
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Tei oscar.vi...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote: ... I'm not sure if Wikimedia has anything to do with it, but I think I have a better chance of getting an answer here than by asking Google (the company)

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia Google Earth layer

2009-10-02 Thread Steve Bennett
On 10/2/09, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote: I was wondering if anyone here knows how often does Google update their Wikipedia layer for Google Earth and how do they get the data? I mean, they use the geo templates in the articles, but do they parse a wikipedia dump or they use a crawler

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia Google Earth layer

2009-10-02 Thread Simon Walker
2009/10/2 Tei oscar.vi...@gmail.com: you could always install Ethereal, I'm pretty sure ethereal was renamed to wireshark a while back... -- Regards, Simon Walker User:Stwalkerster on all public Wikimedia Foundation wikis Administrator on the English Wikipedia Developer of Helpmebot, the ACC

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia Google Earth layer

2009-10-02 Thread Roan Kattouw
2009/10/2 Tei oscar.vi...@gmail.com: On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote: ... I'm not sure if Wikimedia has anything to do with it, but I think I have a better chance of getting an answer here than by asking Google (the company) directly. Google (the search

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia Google Earth layer

2009-10-02 Thread Tei
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/10/2 Tei oscar.vi...@gmail.com: On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote: ... I'm not sure if Wikimedia has anything to do with it, but I think I have a better chance of getting an answer

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia Google Earth layer

2009-10-02 Thread Bilal Abdul Kader
I think Google applications use the data crawled from their own datbases and of course Google has almost all last updates of Wikipedia articles with all its information including the Geo addresses. bilal On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Tei oscar.vi...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia Google Earth layer

2009-10-02 Thread Platonides
Strainu wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anyone here knows how often does Google update their Wikipedia layer for Google Earth and how do they get the data? I mean, they use the geo templates in the articles, but do they parse a wikipedia dump or they use a crawler or some other method. I'm

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia Google Earth layer

2009-10-02 Thread Steve Bennett
On 10/3/09, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: They use the dumps, and they reported some time ago to do so about once a month. That'll teach me to speculate. Steve ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org