The German Wikipedia now integrates maps of the community project Open Street Map (OSM). More than 150,000 Wikipedia articles can thus click on dynamic map display. Open Street Map uses the data contained in Wikipedia to own maps to enrich the. On a layer can, for example, pictures of famous buildings from the portfolio of Wikimedia Commons Show Sun Since both projects their content under Creative Commons license to offer, the problems without.

Wikipedia continued benefits from the flexibility of the material Open Street Map: Thus, in the encyclopedia, a map with hiking and biking trails Show. The integration was not technically easy to implement. To load additional server to intercept, year, Wikimedia Germany for the past Open Street Map own server set up, the rendering and presentation of the card takes over. Wikipedia has long provided authors articles and photos with geo-coordinates. Previously users could only evaluate this information in which third-party service like Google Maps or other card companies resorted to.

WikiMini Atlas built a similar project, but the distance to the detail of the Open Street Map material does not reach. The unpaid volunteers drawn from Open Street Map maps are becoming increasingly popular. Commercial services, the various maps Map Quest and Virtual Earth recently, the data of the project included in their offerings, access to navigation on smartphones, more and more applications back to the free maps