Hello and thanks for the prompt reply.
@Guillaume: I took your name and a question on fr-wiki and concluded that
you were someone who had taken part in the French usage of Kartographer. I
was thinking that their solution might be usable for us also. Thus I was
looking for someone who was knowledgeable about that solution.
@Deborah: Yes I have done some experiments, and seen the pages you link to.
There may be documentation I have not looked at yet though.
It was a question on why our old interactive map did not show a feature
that made me look at it right now, but I had looked at it in the spring. At
that time I did not have the time to dive deep into it, as I was finishing
my final software-project before retiring.
What we have wrt. maps today at no-wiki is the tool originating in de-wiki
with a link after the coordinates that expands above the text. It also
highlight the object of the article if OSM has added wikipedia info. That
map has not been updated for quite some time, thus the recent updates with
Wikipedia/Wikidata references are not giving us any reward. That is a
reason to move to your new solution.
We are also collecting coordinates from articles in a category that can be
shown on a map. Useful both to a user, but also to check for wrong
coordinates. This also can collect coordinates within an article to
similarly show on the map. This feature it seems is missing in
Kartographer, and something that is likely to be an impediment to its
acceptance on no-wiki.
In both cases it should however be possible to utilize Wikidata I think.
But that would mean that we would have to assemble some geojson from data
probably from several Wikidata-objects. Such a solution would gather
support on no-wiki for a possible complete replacement. (We already have
ever increasing usage of a simple inclusion of {{Infoboks biografi}} for
adding an infobox for biographies with data fetched from Wikidata, but not
without some bumps. And the templates and modules could do with
rewrite/replacement)
It is easy to add a <mapframe> with the necessary data to highlight
objects, but although I think I should be able to get the commas right in
the json, I don't think that is something that our editors should be
expected to do. Thus the need to put everything into a template, probably
with a module.
When I experimented I did not find the correct way to add a mapframe from a
template, and I have not seen it clearly described in the documentation
either.
Regards,
Hans
On 31 July 2017 at 23:51, Deborah Tankersley <dtankersley(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Hello and thanks for writing :)
Norwegian Wikipedia already has mapframe enabled—have you had a chance to
play with the code yet? If not, learning how to use mapframe is fairly easy
for basic things and help can be found here:
https://www.mediawiki.
org/wiki/Maps/how_to:_embedded_maps.
More information about the map project and service can be found here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps. Also, for general discussion and
questions, please send an email to: Maps-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org for great
knowledge sharing opportunities.
Let me know if you have further questions after taking a look at the
documentation. As Guillaume mentioned in his email, our engineering
resources are quite small right now, but I think everything you're wanting
to do can be done right now.
Cheers,
Deb
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irc: debt
Product Manager, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 3:31 PM, Guillaume Lederrey <
glederrey(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hello!
Great to see that you have interesting projects around maps! At this
point, the maps team is very reduced, and we are not in a position
where we can offer much support. That being said, we'll do what we
can! There is already some limited integration between maps and
wikidata, which might be sufficient to do some of what you want to do.
But honestly, I'm very much not familiar with that part.
I added Deb in CC to this mail. She's our product owner and she is
probably the best person to orient you in the right direction, or at
least make sure your idea are captured somewhere...
I hope we can find a way to move that forward!
Have fun!
Guillaume
On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 8:18 PM, Hans A. Rosbach
<hans.a.rosbach(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi.
I saw you posted to Maps-l about usage of Kartographer. It seems to me
you
have come quite far with that on fr-wiki, and
I'm interested in such a
solution for no-wiki.
I would like to get in contact with someone who has both knowledge in
the
topic and is willing to discuss this with me. If
that is you, fine,
otherwise perhaps you could introduce me to someone.
I would like to get to the point where it is sufficient to add something
like {{kart}} (map in Norwegian) into an article, getting sufficient
information from Wikidata to display the mapframe. Another case is
replacing
the position maps in infoboxes with an
interactive mapframe. A geogroup
usage like you discussed in may is obviously also of interest.
Regards,
Hans A: Rosbach
User haros on wikipedia.
I also have e-mail haros.at.wikipedia(a)gemil.com
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Operations Engineer, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
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