[Labs-l] creating a MapStory Labs project

[Ryan Lane]

I just created it. We'll need people to add to it, though. They'll
need to sign up for access at:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_access

- Ryan

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Nitin Gadia <nittyjee at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We recently attended Wikimania in Washington DC, where we met Erik Möller,
> who showed us Wikimedia Labs, telling us it would be a good fit. We're
> interested in helping create a Wikimedia Labs project around serving
> mapstories. A mapstory is a type of map that shows change over time, which
> is, like wikipedia or openstreetmap (OSM, www.openstreetmap.org), being
> developed in an online community built on the same standards of openness, at
> www.mapstory.org. We are aware that wikimedia and openstreetmap (OSM) are
> collaborating to serve OSM data through wikimedia to be seen on wikipedia
> articles, and would love to do the same. MapStory is inspired by both
> openstreetmap and wikipedia, and is being built on the same standards of
> openness, and intends to be yet another companion in the open knowledge
> community, and is to be governed in similar ways by the MapStory Foundation.
> At the moment, MapStory is invitation-based, as it is being developed, but
> it will be fully open to anyone's registration.
>
> Examples of mapstories include:
> *Events: Yellowstone Fire: http://mapstory.org/maps/149
> *Trends: Population Growth: http://mapstory.org/maps/162
> *General historical change: Africa: http://mapstory.org/maps/153, walmart:
> http://mapstory.org/maps/60, NYC subway: http://mapstory.org/maps/117/view
> *Large scale mapstories - some mapstories will be enormous, allowing you to
> eventually type in a time, and see the way the world was then. So, a user
> might type in "1900", and see all the roads, buildings, land use, and
> landscape down to very local levels, like you can with OSM now.
>
> The integration of mapstories into wikipedia and other wikimedia projects
> would be extremely fruitful. I can imagine that any article about political
> entities, events, and statistics can, and probably will, have a mapstory.
> I'll reply to this message with some examples in a moment.
>
> What do we need to do in order for us to establish a MapStory labs project,
> or add ourselves to an existing one? Unfortunately, I am not a developer
> myself, but we can at least get started while the developers crank out the
> core mapstory functionality.
>
> I've cc-ed Christopher Tucker, the founder of MapStory.
> Please reply-all if you can :)
>
>
> Thanks,
> Nitin Gadia
> Ames, Iowa, USA
> MapStory Foundation
> www.mapstory.org
>
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