Some examples of where there could be very fruitful collaboration between wikipedia and mapstory:<br><br>*An
amazing article entitled "Territorial Evolution of North America". The
article has all the information for each change in boundaries of
non-native nations, and an animated gif map that is essentially a
mapstory. People in mapstory can have all the tools to add annotations
and increasing detail, and can create a dynamism that is in the spirit
of wikipedia.<br>- Article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_North_America">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_North_America</a><br>-
Animated map (a good example of a mapstory in wikipedia):
<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/Non-Native-American-Nations-Territorial-Claims-over-NAFTA-countries-1750-2008.gif">http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/Non-Native-American-Nations-Territorial-Claims-over-NAFTA-countries-1750-2008.gif</a><br>
<br>*Yellowstone fire. This article has a nice animated map as well, for which there is already a mapstory:<br>- Article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_fire">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_fire</a><br>
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Animation (again, essentially a mapstory):
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:This_multi-colored_animation_shows_the_different_fires_that_ignited,_combined_and_spread_throughout_Yellowstone_from_Jun._30_to_Oct._2,_1988.ogv">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:This_multi-colored_animation_shows_the_different_fires_that_ignited,_combined_and_spread_throughout_Yellowstone_from_Jun._30_to_Oct._2,_1988.ogv</a><br>
- mapstory: <a href="http://mapstory.org/maps/149">http://mapstory.org/maps/149</a><br><br>Mapstory
is an enormous project that is in heavy development right now.
Mapstories will eventually have smooth playback, with timesliders, and a
large host of functionality.<br><br><br>Nitin<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Nitin Gadia <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nittyjee@gmail.com" target="_blank">nittyjee@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello,<br><br>We recently attended Wikimania in Washington DC, where we met <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_M%C3%B6ller" target="_blank">Erik <font><span dir="auto">Möller</span></font></a>, 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 <i>mapstories</i>. A mapstory is a type of map that shows change over time, which is, like wikipedia or openstreetmap (OSM, <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">www.openstreetmap.org</a>), being developed in an online community built on the same standards of openness, at <a href="http://www.mapstory.org" target="_blank"><i>www.mapstory.org</i></a>. 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.<br><br>Examples of mapstories include:<br>*Events: Yellowstone Fire: <a href="http://mapstory.org/maps/149" target="_blank">http://mapstory.org/maps/149</a><br>
*Trends: Population Growth: <a href="http://mapstory.org/maps/162" target="_blank">http://mapstory.org/maps/162</a><br>*General historical change: Africa: <a href="http://mapstory.org/maps/153" target="_blank">http://mapstory.org/maps/153</a>, walmart: <a href="http://mapstory.org/maps/60" target="_blank">http://mapstory.org/maps/60</a>, NYC subway: <a href="http://mapstory.org/maps/117/view" target="_blank">http://mapstory.org/maps/117/view</a><br>
*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.<br>
<br>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.<br>
<b><br>What do we need to do in order for us to establish a MapStory labs project, or add ourselves to an existing one? </b>Unfortunately, I am not a developer myself, but we can at least get started while the developers crank out the core mapstory functionality.<br>
<br>I've cc-ed Christopher Tucker, the founder of MapStory.<br>Please reply-all if you can :)<br><br><br>Thanks,<br>Nitin Gadia<br>Ames, Iowa, USA<br>MapStory Foundation<br><a href="http://www.mapstory.org" target="_blank"><i>www.mapstory.org</i></a><br>
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