Billinghurst, could you summarize your use case at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/Future_Plans so that we have it in one place?

Of the top of my head, the wikisource community will be able to do the same as Wikivoyage right away -- insert a contemporary map inside the article, and draw lines/shapes/marks on top of it. The community may also wish to alter the styling of the map, e.g. remove some smaller roads or change the color scheme to make the added layers more pronounced.

As for locating wikisource articles on a map, I think this is similar to the leaflet map I mentioned as [5] - https://tools.wmflabs.org/wiwosm/osm-gadget-leaflet/#/?lang=de&article=Berlin -- It should be possible to make something like this for Wikisource / Wikivoyage / ...

Eventually we should be able to draw elements directly from Wikidata as well, simplifying some of the usecases.

Thanks for your comment!

On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 2:58 PM, billinghurst <billinghurstwiki@gmail.com> wrote:
Yuri,

A thought for the longer term. For some works at enWS they are very
geographic in nature.
eg. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Highways_and_Byways_in_Sussex

The community looked at means to easily render these historical works
to place, however, the effort to do so (esp. several years ago)
against the reward had us abandon that exploration.

I hope that there may be a technical means to interweave works as they
exist at the Wikisources with maps, either on a per work basis like
the 19th century travel guides, OR for people interested in a
geographic work area to be able to see what works relate to a
spot/area on a map.

Even some of the biographical articles, eg.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wooddeson,_Richard_%28DNB00%29  have
places names that may (or maybe may not) would have interesting
aspects to map individually or collectively

Definitely not asking for an immediate answer, however, if there was
some means between Discovery, Wikidata and OSM to explore and bring
new life to a traditional book, I think we are getting novel
technology and map layers through time and space.

Regards, Billinghurst

On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 6:38 AM, Yuri Astrakhan <yastrakhan@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> The Discovery's maps team would like to share the progress we have been
> making, and our future goals.
>
> * Kartographer extension is getting closer to being deployed. It will allow
> editors to insert a map and add article specific data into wiki pages.
> Kartographer has a neat Visual Editor interface thanks to Ed Sanders. We
> hope to add a good VE maps editor there as well. See [1]
> * Wikipedia Android app now shows all nearby articles on a map (Kudos to
> Dmitry Brant)
> * GeoHack (gps link in the upper right corner) for Russian and Italian
> Wikipedias have switched to the new map. English wiki will have it soon as
> well (Kudos to Putnik and Legoktm)
> * English & Russian WikiVoyage has switched to the new map
> * Maps database is automatically refreshed from OSM (thanks to Max Semenik
> and Alex Kosiaris)
> * We now have a map without place labels [2]
>
> [1] DEMO:  http://vem3.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page
> [2] https://maps.wikimedia.org/?s=osm
>
>
> == Community Projects ==
> * Simon Legner has been actively developing article map [3] with some help
> from Tim Alder and Daniel Schwen
> * Several people are working on Wikimaps Warper [4] tool to add and position
> scanned map images.
> * Kartotherian tile server code has been improved [5] and deployed to a
> non-WMF site. This makes us very happy because it shows that our code is
> useful to others.
>
> [3]
> https://tools.wmflabs.org/wiwosm/osm-gadget-leaflet/#/?lang=de&article=Berlin
> [4] http://wikimaps.wikimedia.fi/wikimaps-tools/wikimaps-warper/
> [5] https://github.com/zoondka/kartozoa
>
>
> == Future plans / goals ==
> This quarter, our goal is to improve the content discovery experience on
> Wikivoyage by rolling out maps to all Wikivoyages.  Specific tasks can be
> tracked in Phabricator: #maps [6], #kartographer [7]. These are some of the
> tasks we plan to do:
>
> * Deploy Kartographer extension to Wikivoyage
> * Add maps editor to Kartographer
> * Work with Operations to make maps a production-level service. This
> includes adding more caching and backend servers.
> * Offer maps as a more stable and feature rich alternative to
> geohack/wiwosm/WikiMiniAtlas
> * Implement cross-wiki shared data storage
> * Implement static service capable of generating a map image with the
> article-specific overlays
> * Allow editors to add maps directly to Wikipedia
> * Implement the most requested features from the Future Plans [8]
>
> [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/maps/
> [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/kartographer/
> [8] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/Future_Plans
>
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