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. RodrÃguez-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
* 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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