Hoi,
One of the things that Open SteetMap provides is exactly localised content. As you may know, Open StreetMap makes use of OpenLayers and we are quite happy that MinuteElectron wrote the functionality that allowed us to include OpenLayers in translatewiki.net. Now obviously there will be many maps based on Open Streetmap. The big challenge will be to make these maps once and use them with all our projects and in all our languages.

When we are able to abstract the labels from OSM and use appropriate labels, OSM will provide truly awesome functionality. When we cannot, we will find that it will pass many of our projects by.
Thanks,
      GerardM

2009/5/15 Daniel Kinzler <daniel@brightbyte.de>
Roman Maurer schrieb:
> Brion Vibber <brion@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> If anybody's got any particularly interesting issues, examples, problems,
>> or idea prototypes relating to usage of SVG on Wikipedia and other
>> Wikimedia sites, I'd love to see how much I can pack in. :)
>
> I don't know if this is possible, but one feature I'd particularly like to
> see in Wikipedia is parametrized SVG rendering.  For example, when
> illustrating location of each one of the 210 Slovenian municipalities, it
> would be cool if (a) you could only have one file with map template, and (b)
> then specify
> "[[Image:Obcine_Slovenija_2006.svg|mark_tag="Trbovlje"|color=red]]" or
> something like that to get this result:
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Obcine_Slovenija_2006_Trbovlje.svg
>
> In a present situation, I have to slightly modify the master SVG file and
> upload 210 two-megabyte files, which is not amusing.  Every few years
> municipality borders get changed, so we have to upload 210+ two-megabyte
> files yet again.
>
> Is this possible at all?

While I agree that parametrized rendering would be cool, especially for
localization, I believe that maps will be a non-issue soon. Integration of
automatically generated maps from OpenStreetMap is being worked on. Hopefully,
we will soon have google-style interactive maps in wikipedia.

-- daniel


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