Nice tool! But when I look at my area, the problem are not missing
photographs but just that most of them are not geocoded.
indeedous
2014-06-19 23:11 GMT+02:00 Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com>om>:
Emilio - this is so beautiful!
Daniel - I beg to differ: a photo per km2 would add tremendous value
for the right people and the right uses; geograph's mission is both
inspiring and interesting.
SJ
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Daniel Schwen <lists(a)schwen.de> wrote:
While increasing our worldwide image coverage is
certainly desirable,
I think that the arbitrary metric of defining "coverage" as one image
per km^2 is not very useful at best and misleading at worst.
The necessary image density strongly depends on local features. Having
one image per km^2 in a City center (or even a single image inside a
building) is not nearly enough. On the other hand requiring one image
per km^2 in a desolate desert, or even a forrest is an unrealistic
requirement that will not add much value to commons.
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada
<emijrp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all;
>
> Since I watched the project Geograph Britain[1] long time ago, I dreamed
> with a global version. I have been playing with maps (mostly Google
Maps) in
> the past years, but now that I'm
migrating my tools to Wikimedia Labs, I
> started to read about OpenStreetMap and Leaflet.
>
> I have made some tests and coded a pretty alpha version of the
concept.[2]
> It shows circles of 500m radius for every
geolocated image on Commons
(there
> are about 4 million). Not all are shown at
the same time, but only
10,000
> per zoom level. So you only have to make zoom
on your city or in the
search
> box.
>
> Some examples:
> * Barcelona
http://tools.wmflabs.org/commons-coverage/#12/41.3927/2.1407
http://tools.wmflabs.org/commons-coverage/#11/-34.8200/-56.2269
So, I would like to hear your opinions and suggestions about the idea of
scaling Wikimedia Commons into a project with at least 1 image per km2
globally.
The code is in GitHub[3] and it is forked merging 2 examples of the
thousands of Leaflet library examples available. Currently the code is
pretty simple and you can help to improve it.
Regards
[1]
http://www.geograph.org.uk/
[2]
http://tools.wmflabs.org/commons-coverage/
[3]
https://github.com/emijrp/commons-coverage
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