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 or some other method.
I'd be very surprised if they did anything other than crawl. They're good at crawling and don't like making exceptions*. And en dumps are pretty unreliable - they could be months out of date. Steve * I base this generalisation on this: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/04/retiring-support-for-oai-pmh-in.html _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
