Wednesday, August 27, 2014
The Wikipedia Dot Map of the World
Wikipedia Worldview is an interesting visualization of geo-referenced Wikipedia entries. Using the application you can select a language and view a dot-map of the world created purely through the plots of all the locations of Wikipedia entries.
You can select to view a single language's Wikipedia entries or any combination of languages. A geo-referenced map of the world is then created from all the geo-tagged articles in the chosen language(s). When the map has been created you can even click on the map to link through to the selected Wikipedia article.
Mapping Wikipedia is a similar project from TraceMedia and the Oxford Internet Institute.
Using the Google Maps API Mapping Wikipedia allows you to view the geography of all geotagged Wikipedia articles in a number of different languages. It can also create maps based on the word count of articles, the date created, number of authors, and number of images.
If you are interested about how the map was created TraceMedia has provided an outline of the tools used in building the application.
WikipediaVision is an animated Google Map of real-time map edits to Wikipedia.
The map displays an information window for each edit, with the title of the article, the summary of the edit (if a summary was given), a link to the changes that were made to the article and the time the edit happened.
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