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Placeopedia: Putting Wikipedia articles on the map
by Jordan Running Sep 19th 2005 at 2:20PM
Placeopedia is a brilliantly-executed Google Maps-powered site which aims to create a map of all the articles in Wikipedia which correspond to a real-world location. The site is attractive and slick and adding a new place from Wikipedia is extremely easy: you just start typing the name of an article and Placeopedia autocompletes as you type—a functionality that should be built into Wikipedia (Greasemonkey, anyone?)—and then you click on the corresponding location on the map. There's also RSS and raw XML data for the 50 most recently-added places as well as KML files for Google Earth. My only gripe with Placeopedia is that you have to click on a link in a confirmation e-mail after every single place you add; perhaps a necessary evil, but it would be nice to be able to add, say, five at a time.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
