Placeopedia: Wikipedia Meets Google Maps

Placeopedia is a really cool tool. It’s kind of like a visual atlas that uses Google Maps to display and link to Wikipedia entries.

Hello, and welcome to Placeopedia, a simple site where you can connect Wikipedia articles with places, and then make use of our database either to browse, or syndicate the whole lot. We hope that lots of people will connect places they know with their corresponding Wikipedia article, and then our syndicated data can be used as a general geographic lookup table for Wikipedia.

It’s still a little rough around the edges, but it’s a neat idea and one that I think has lots of potential.

Placeopedia.com

Die Dulci Fruere