Daniel Kinzler wrote:
Gregory Maxwell schrieb:
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Brian
<Brian.Mingus(a)colorado.edu> wrote:
Great. Let us know when you've got community
approval.
Better than a simple super-majority too per the president set in the
recent discussions related to revision flagging.
Well, falgged revisions are pretty controverisial, I dopt map integration will
be. There's hardly a downside I can see.
Anyway... let's wait until we at least have a *demo* that people can look at, so
they know what they are talking about. Will be some time until we have that.
The MW extension for the inline OSM maps is:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SlippyMap
Feel free to pop over to some of the sites already using it for examples
of its current state. As a minimum for WMF deployment we want to make
sure it handles multiple maps per page ;) and handles non-JavaScript
visitors for a static map.
Medium to longer term we'll want to be able to highlight
places/countries/geographic features/whatever (very useful!) and
potentially other sorts of data sets (eg a map of some historical
whatsit), topographic map tiles, etc etc.
Folks have been tossing around the idea of doing this for years and just
never quite got round to pushing it... now it's being pushed forward and
we'll be able to use a local OpenStreetMap mirror to ensure we're not
breaking the external sites it relies on for source data. ;)
Unlike say Google Maps, OSM is also a free content project very similar
in spirit to Wikipedia, which makes us feel warm and fuzzy as well --
it's not something that can be snatched away from the community's use in
the future.
-- brion