Grasshoppermind

From Techcrunch:

Placeopedia tackles the problem with Wikipedia of not having a visual guide to where (in a map) articles refer to. Naturally, it doesn’t make sense to localize every single article, but where correctly used, this may become an extremely powerful (and fun) tool.

Well in fact many Wikipedia articles do have a visual guide to where they are referring to, although this is dependent upon custom image files uploaded by article authors. Placeopedia offers a simple method to link a Wikipedia article to a location (once you’ve figured out the Wikipedia Article name). Placeopedia have also made a reasonable attempt to stop their service being abused because you need to confirm your entries via an email verification step. It would be great to see a reciprocal arrangement with Wikipedia, where articles tagged on Placeopedia have a location map displayed within the original Wikipedia article!

The only issue I can see is that their system covers the UK only at present. I wonder if they are going to add the rest of the world?