[Geodata] Do *you* have some data you'd like to serve?

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 05:56:07PM +0200, Stefan F. Keller wrote:
> Hi Christopher,
> 
> Good proposal. What about serving Wikipedia articles as WMS? The data can be
> downloaded from here:
> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Georeferenzierung/Wikipedia-World/en

I don't see any GIS-like data downloads there, though I might have
missed something. Can you give a link to an explicit file? 

> And Geonames as WMS would also be nice (http://www.geonames.org/export/) if
> the license allows it.

I'm not sure I understand what the target here is: you want to see names
of every place in the world on the map? Even ignoring my personal
discomfort with the license (which appears to be non-commercial,
something I can't guarentee in setting this service up), I'm not sure
what a visualization of this data would best look like -- or even if
we'd not be better off just setting up a vmap0 layer. (VMap0 is a good
example of a data set we do need to set up, but since MC Labs already
provides a decent + fast one, I'm not chomping at the bit to replicate
that work.)  

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer