New subject: [Wikimedia-l] endangered languages project -> Tool for map representation

27 May 2013

Hi, I foward this mail to design, since it seems relevant here.

As far as I know, currently there is no other way to create (world)maps 
than taking some existing blank one, and put the color on regions of 
interest. Maybe it would be intersting to have such a tool online, but 
more important, to ease contributors ability to make interactive maps, 
which enable readers to see how a phenomenon evolved/is evolving through 
time.

What do you think ?

Le 2013-05-24 20:26, phoebe ayers a écrit :
...
  On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 1:55 AM, Mathieu Stumpf <
 psychoslave(a)culture-libre.org&gt; wrote:

  Le 2013-05-23 19:03, phoebe ayers a écrit :

  Perhaps of interest to many Wikimedians: the Endangered Languages 
 project
  recently launched a new layout, making it easier
to find and submit
 information on languages that are in the "catalog of endangered 
 languages"
 that they are building. Worth a look.

 http://www.**endangeredlanguages.com/<http://www.endangeredlanguages.com…

 -- phoebe

 Thank you for the link.

 It seems to be the result of a realy huge work! Do you know if their
 solution to create interactive map is free software? I would love to 
 have
 such a tool within wikimedia. To my mind, it would be really useful 
 for
 geographic and historical articles. Having a tool that would enable 
 to
 "watch events propagation through time and localisation on a map" 
 would be
 awesome, and it seems to me that their software is almost all that.

 Hi Mathieu,

 I don't know anything about this project beyond what's on the site -- 
 I
 just ran across it. From what I can tell the user-submitted language 
 data
 is CC-by but unfortunately they seem to be using Google Maps for the 
 map
 interface.

 -- phoebe 
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