I sent some notes to the Placeopedia team. Placeopedia is a service connecting Wikipedia pages with their locations on the map.

I would be a good idea to switch Placeopedia to use Google Maps hybrid mode, as there are no maps for places outside US and UK.

Try this for example http://www.placeopedia.com/?9356

Doesn’t make much sense before you click “Hybrid”.

It is easy to make the Google Map Hybrid Mode by default. Simply call map.setMapType(G_HYBRID_TYPE);

Anyway, thanks for making this great service! Position data really adds to the Wikipedia experience.

Since you provide nice “things near this coordinate” RSS feed I’ve been thinking about building a tool based on Plazes and that.

BTW, are there any plans to synchronize the Placeopedia data with Wikipedia itself?

I noticed the map mode issue when trying to place Petja’s question.