[Labs-l] creating a MapStory Labs project

[Christopher Tucker]

Nice!  Thx!




On Jul 27, 2012, at 7:23 PM, Nitin Gadia <nittyjee at gmail.com> wrote:

> hahaha
> awesome :)
> 
> Just signed up.
> I'm not a developer, but I suppose you learn by doing.
> I'll just have others jump in too in order to establish things :)
> 
> Chris - check it out (scroll down to MapStory):
> https://labsconsole.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Ask/-5B-5BResource-20Type::project-5D-5D/-3F/-3FMember/-3FDescription/mainlabel%3D-2D/searchlabel%3Dprojects/offset%3D0
> 
> nitin
> 
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Ryan Lane <rlane at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> 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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