WikiGlobe mapsite

Say I'm reading about the Iran hostages on Wikipedia and follow the story to the Iran-Contra affair and want to see where Nicaragua is.

Today attached to 'Nicaragua' is a vector image of the globe with Nicaragua colored and all the rest gray. There are borderlines, but no further information.

WikiGlobe (not to be confused with the atlasgold:Wikiglobe image) would show the same globe, but when clicked on, would allow you to rotate the globe, choose different mappings such as country boarders, major landmarks and terrain, weather and other information maps such as natural resources, agriculture, nature etc.

The WikiGlobe will also have links to wp categories - which are lists pertaining to a certain subject, and a low res satelite image.

It can show historical maps as well.

An external link to Google Earth or MS Virtual Earth (perhaps one of the two would pay for connecting in, not sure about the politics that went around that. I do no that Google Search shows Wikipedia articles as default, so the two ARE connected somehow...) and the ability to show multiple versions in disputed areas.

In later versions the WikiGlobe mapsite will have the option to show current lighting, current time (according to time zone), current weather, current disaster areas, and have local maps with pinpointed information, all gathered by the WikiGlobe community.