Hitchwiki:Hitchmap links
You can help Hitchmap to incorporate spot information from Hitchwiki.
- check out the articles for the cities you know well on Hitchwiki e.g. your hometown
- for a spot that is mentioned in the article, find this spot on Hitchmap
- link Hitchmap spot to Hitchwiki article
Take a look at the images.
Why
The map for hitchhiking has originated from Hitchwiki, it was taken to Hitchmap to make it more maintainable. With this initiative, we want to build a foundation to bring the two closer together again allowing to jump between map and wiki more seamlessly and finding your desired hitchhiking spots quicker. The first endeavor in this direction will be to collect which of the spots on Hitchmap are mentioned on Hitchwiki (see above for a HowTo). We believe that this alone can be valuable information to show on the map as spots that are described in a Hitchwiki article for "hitchhiking out" are usually frequently used spots.
In addition
Right now it is not trivial to link spots single sections on Hitchwiki because not all articles follow the same format. If you are motivated you could make sure that the Hitchwiki articles you are checking follow the format in Template:City. Besides that you can also update information in the articles in case it is outdated and create new articles if you do not find a city on the wiki yet (for some you might be able to find an article on a non-English Hitchwiki that could be translated to English - we are only concerned with the English Hitchwiki as most other wikis are not very active).
Thanks a lot to you all :)
