This is a really cool idea. Now I want to go fill in the little holes in
San Francisco:
http://tools.wmflabs.org/commons-coverage/#13/37.7718/-122.4570
Thanks for sharing it (and putting it on Github). My one request would be
that you provide a way to view the images themselves from the map.
Ryan Kaldari
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 11:15 AM, 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
* 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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