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@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@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
>> * Moscow http://tools.wmflabs.org/commons-coverage/#10/55.7252/37.6290
>> * Montevideo 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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