Visual: ?
On 14 May 2014 10:44, "Derk-Jan Hartman" <d.j.hartman+wmf_ml(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
PS, i'm building an instance that is running
this extension.
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:34 AM, Jon Robson <jrobson(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> During the Zurich hackathon, DJ Hartman, Aude and I knocked up a
> generic maps prototype extension [1]. We have noticed that many maps
> like extensions keep popping up and believed it was time we
> standardised on one that all these extensions could use so we share
> data better.
>
> We took a look at all the existing use cases and tried to imagine what
> such an extension would look like that wouldn't be too tied into a
> specific use case.
>
> The extension we came up with was a map extension that introduces a
> Map namespace where data for the map is stored in raw GeoJSON and can
> be edited via a JavaScript map editor interface. It also allows the
> inclusion of maps in wiki articles via a map template.
>
> Dan Andreescu also created a similar visualisation namespace which may
> want to be folded into this as a map could be seen as a visualisation.
> I invite Dan to comment on this with further details :-)!
>
> I'd be interested in people's thoughts around this extension. In
> particular I'd be interested in the answer to the question "For my
> usecase A what would the WikiMaps extension have to support for me to
> use it".
>
> Thanks for your involvement in this discussion. Let's finally get a
> maps extension up on a wikimedia box!
> Jon
>
> [1]
https://github.com/jdlrobson/WikiMaps
>
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