Maps-l May 2014

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Fwd: We need to organize a Tech Talk (with OSM)
by Quim Gil 13 Jun '14

13 Jun '14

For your information, today at the Wikimedia Hackathon some of us had the pleasure to walk, learn, and talk with Simon Poole, chairman of the OpenStreetMap Foundation. Long story short, we could talk more and collaborate better beyond the priceless personal dedication of some volunteers with links in both projects. Let's have a chat! Online. In your opinion, which are the most important technical topics that Wikimedia and OpenStreetMap should discuss? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Quim Gil* <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Saturday, May 10, 2014 Subject: We need to organize a Tech Talk To: simon@osm Please check with your community which are the 1-2 topics that they would like to discuss with Wikimedia Foundation engineers and the technical community in general. Let's start with 1-2 only. If there are more, let's document all of them at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap See also https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Upstream_projects -- OSM *must* be in our radar. Thank you for the conversation and the walk! -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Wikimaps Nordic blog post about maps at the Wikimedia hackathon in Zürich
by Susanna Ånäs 05 Jun '14

05 Jun '14

http://wikimaps.wikimedia.fi/2014/05/19/maps-at-the-zurich-hackathon/ Also: How can the people on these lists best communicate with each other and allow various GLAM communities to participate? I have proposed the creation of a new mailing list for the Wikimaps project (GLAM, Nordic, historical) in the Wikimedia space, but would an existing list be sufficient? Maps-l? Best, Susanna Ånäs -- *Susanna Ånäs *Käyttäjä:Susannaanas Wikimedia Suomi <http://wikimedia.fi/> – Wikimaps<http://wikimaps.wikimedia.fi/>– GLAM <http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM> @ <https://twitter.com/WMFinland>WMFinland <https://twitter.com/WMFinland> / Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaSuomi> / Liity jäseneksi!<http://fi.wikimedia.org/wiki/Liity_j%C3%A4seneksi>

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OpenStreetMap on WMFLabs/Toollabs
by Tim Alder 24 May '14

24 May '14

Hello together, I'm glad to can say that we have now an OSM-database which we can access from WMFLabs / Toollabs. To access the database use: psql -h labsdb1004.eqiad.wmnet gis -U osm This means host is labsdb1004.eqiad.wmnet, database is gis and user is osm. More infos about Toollabs are here: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Tools/Help Shorter version: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/Migrating_from_tools… On Labs we have a maps-project with some instances: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Maps Inside this database you can find OSM database for mapnik rendering, WIWOSM data and Wikipedia coordinates from Wikipedia-World project. Javascript Libraries are also moved to: http://tools.wmflabs.org/osm/libs/ Kai is in the moment working to set-up the render stack. So it's a good time for all mapnik-style-designers from Toolserver, to start now updating styles. It would be nice if these styles are updated end of May. I'm optimistical that this can be a good restart of activities we had on Toolserver. With new developments like Wikidata, with the flexibility of labs (root-rights for everyone) and the simplicity of Tool-labs (administrated by professionals /multimaintainer projects by default) I see a bright future for maps and geo-data on this plattform. Everything is still at the beginning, documentation have to write and lot of things have to set-up. Any help is welcome. For question and comments use this list, which could also come back to old activity-level. Greetings Tim alias Kolossos

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Re: [Maps-l] [Wikitech-l] Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!
by Dan Andreescu 21 May '14

21 May '14

> > 2014-05-14 19:43 GMT+03:00 Dan Andreescu <dandreescu(a)wikimedia.org>: > > For the short term, I think further exploration of the Map namespace is > > great, but I think generic visualization work could go into the > > Visualization namespace. My suggestion for a name for this namespace may > > seem a bit obscure. It's a word that means "to illuminate": Limn [5]. > > 3) It's a word that is difficult to translate. > I'm open to alternatives, but my original choice (WikiViz) was taken

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intro
by Simone Cortesi 16 May '14

16 May '14

hi, after being told about this mailinglist at the Zurich event this past weekend, here I'm. I'm Simone Cortesi, OSM early adopter (anno 2005), started the italian community. Previously with the OpenStreetMap Foundation, where I've been board member, now with Wikimedia Italia, where I'm elected member to the Board. PS: I love maps :) -- -S

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warper
by Simone Cortesi 16 May '14

16 May '14

hi, I've seen few maps on commons that I would like to warp with http://warper.wmflabs.org/ how do I do that? it seems there is no way to select a commons image for that task any other warper around? Thanks, Simone.

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Output from Zurich Hackathon - yet another maps extension!
by Jon Robson 14 May '14

14 May '14

During the Zurich hackathon, DJ Hartman, Aude and I knocked up a generic maps prototype extension [1]. We have noticed that many maps like extensions keep popping up and believed it was time we standardised on one that all these extensions could use so we share data better. We took a look at all the existing use cases and tried to imagine what such an extension would look like that wouldn't be too tied into a specific use case. The extension we came up with was a map extension that introduces a Map namespace where data for the map is stored in raw GeoJSON and can be edited via a JavaScript map editor interface. It also allows the inclusion of maps in wiki articles via a map template. Dan Andreescu also created a similar visualisation namespace which may want to be folded into this as a map could be seen as a visualisation. I invite Dan to comment on this with further details :-)! I'd be interested in people's thoughts around this extension. In particular I'd be interested in the answer to the question "For my usecase A what would the WikiMaps extension have to support for me to use it". Thanks for your involvement in this discussion. Let's finally get a maps extension up on a wikimedia box! Jon [1] https://github.com/jdlrobson/WikiMaps

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WP-geocoordinates filter by using Wikidata classes
by Tim Alder 10 May '14

10 May '14

Hello, I'm glad to can announce my last experiment to work with Wikidata and Wikipedia-coordinates: http://tools.wmflabs.org/wp-world/wikidata/superclasses.php?lang=en This list shows how many objects we have in different classes and provide links to maps with only this specific class. I think it's much more useful than in the past where 80% of our coordinates were simply a "landmark". To create this tool I used properties "is instance of"[1] and "is subclass of"[2]. To extract this properties it was necessary to use "Wikidata Query". Now all classes, where an object is a member, are in a numerical array-element in the database. So with an index on this array it should have a good performances. Next steps are to try to bring more order inside this list and support the community to create more "is instance of"-entries in Wikidata. (Only 30% off all objects have such an entry). Greetings from Switzerland Kolossos [1]https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P31 [2]https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P279

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