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
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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It's one approach. Another would be to scale with population density.
On 19 June 2014 19:44, 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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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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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@gmail.com:
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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2014-06-19 23:16 GMT+02:00 indeedous@gmail.com:
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
Yep, I have noted this too in my region. A feature to add coordinates to images from the map would be great, adding something like this http://tools.freeside.sk/geolocator/geolocator.html I will try it.
2014-06-19 23:11 GMT+02:00 Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com:
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
Thanks for your kind words SJ :-)
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.
Yeah, well, I could never warm up to geograph's brute fore approach...
Just don't use this kind of map as a "mission accomplished" indicator please.
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@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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2014-06-19 20:58 GMT+02:00 Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.org:
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
Yes, it is a basic feature. Now the images are shown from the zoom 10.
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 11:15 AM, 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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Curious stuff I find while doing tests... A line of white dots (pictures) along dozens of km in the North of Europe http://tools.wmflabs.org/commons-coverage/#7/69.071/19.709
Can you imagine what it means? :-) Zoom to solve.
2014-06-20 17:13 GMT+02:00 Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada emijrp@gmail.com:
2014-06-19 20:58 GMT+02:00 Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.org:
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
Yes, it is a basic feature. Now the images are shown from the zoom 10.
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 11:15 AM, 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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Emilio, you should probably prerender low zoom overlays. As it is now the low zoom levels are rather pointless, because the number of images show is capped. In low zooms Great Britain should be much brighter than the rest of the world (even if it does not say anything about image quality of the geograph project). A heat map would actually be a better way of visualizing this data.
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada emijrp@gmail.com wrote:
Curious stuff I find while doing tests... A line of white dots (pictures) along dozens of km in the North of Europe http://tools.wmflabs.org/commons-coverage/#7/69.071/19.709
Can you imagine what it means? :-) Zoom to solve.
2014-06-20 17:13 GMT+02:00 Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada emijrp@gmail.com:
2014-06-19 20:58 GMT+02:00 Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.org:
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
Yes, it is a basic feature. Now the images are shown from the zoom 10.
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 11:15 AM, 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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2014-06-20 21:57 GMT+02:00 Daniel Schwen lists@schwen.de:
Emilio, you should probably prerender low zoom overlays. As it is now the low zoom levels are rather pointless, because the number of images show is capped.
Currently it shows up 10,000 light circles. I'm thinking about adding a control bar, so you can choose how many to show, in case your browser allows more load without issues.
In low zooms Great Britain should be much brighter than the rest of the world (even if it does not say anything about image quality of the geograph project).
I know that, really any part of the world should be much brighter (now limited to a random sample of 10,000).
A heat map would actually be a better way of visualizing this data.
I'm not sure of that. I like the darkness/light contrast, well defined by circles.
I have added different markers for normal, quality and feature images. I hope you like it. This tool doesn't intend to promote bad quality pictures, but showing which places need more coverage.
http://tools.wmflabs.org/commons-coverage/#10/28.2977/-16.5317
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada emijrp@gmail.com wrote:
Curious stuff I find while doing tests... A line of white dots (pictures) along dozens of km in the North of Europe http://tools.wmflabs.org/commons-coverage/#7/69.071/19.709
Can you imagine what it means? :-) Zoom to solve.
2014-06-20 17:13 GMT+02:00 Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada <emijrp@gmail.com :
2014-06-19 20:58 GMT+02:00 Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.org:
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
Yes, it is a basic feature. Now the images are shown from the zoom 10.
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 11:15 AM, 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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