The quest to bring maps to Wikipedia continues:
* Kartographer has launched for WikiVoyage
* Julien Girault will help maps with his UI expertise
* Talk to us at the FreeNode IRC channel #wikipedia-interactive
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Kartographer
Last week we enabled Kartographer extension for Wikivoyage sites, allowing
users to add maps to wiki pages without any additional wmflabs and
JavaScript tricks. Now you can simply add a <mapframe> or <maplink> to a
wiki page, or even use the Visual Editor to insert a map. Additionally, you
can:
* add markers and polygons visually
* edit geojson and see how it changes the map on each keystroke
* add auto-numbered markers (either numbers or letters), and have multiple
counters
* have multiple "groups" of markers/polygons and showing them on the same
map or on separate maps (e.g. all food and all drink maps and one combined
map)
* markers can be of any color, 3 sizes, and contain many different icons
* markers and polygons can be clicked and will show popups with wiki text
and images
* very fast full screen popup map
Feedback: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Maps
Bugs & TODOs: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/kartographer/
All maps-related tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/maps/
== What's next? ==
There will be plenty of cleanup and polishing work to make Kartographer
work seamlessly. We will need to address the missing functionality reported
to us by the community, and help migrate existing wmflabs-based maps to the
new platform. Lastly, VE editing will need some more work to become
indispensable.
Yet, our site is still set on the bigger target - maps for all of
Wikipedia. For that we are waiting for more hardware, plus we will need to
improve our static maps service to be able to handle wiki-load.
Hardware task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125126
Thank you Max Semenik, Ed Sanders, Alex Kosiaris, Brandon Black, Chris
Koerner, Chris Steipp, Tomasz Finc, and Wes Moran for making this possible.
Wow, this looks amazing! I'm looking forward to use it other Wikis,
especially Wikipedia and Meta.
Thank you for your great work!
On 15 March 2016 at 12:27, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com>
wrote:
> Great work!
>
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 12:13 AM Yuri Astrakhan <yastrakhan(a)wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
> > The quest to bring maps to Wikipedia continues:
> > * Kartographer has launched for WikiVoyage
> > * Julien Girault will help maps with his UI expertise
> > * Talk to us at the FreeNode IRC channel #wikipedia-interactive
> >
> > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Kartographer
> >
> > Last week we enabled Kartographer extension for Wikivoyage sites,
> allowing
> > users to add maps to wiki pages without any additional wmflabs and
> > JavaScript tricks. Now you can simply add a <mapframe> or <maplink> to a
> > wiki page, or even use the Visual Editor to insert a map. Additionally,
> you
> > can:
> >
> > * add markers and polygons visually
> > * edit geojson and see how it changes the map on each keystroke
> > * add auto-numbered markers (either numbers or letters), and have
> multiple
> > counters
> > * have multiple "groups" of markers/polygons and showing them on the same
> > map or on separate maps (e.g. all food and all drink maps and one
> combined
> > map)
> > * markers can be of any color, 3 sizes, and contain many different icons
> > * markers and polygons can be clicked and will show popups with wiki text
> > and images
> > * very fast full screen popup map
> >
> > Feedback: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Maps
> > Bugs & TODOs: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/kartographer/
> > All maps-related tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/maps/
> >
> > == What's next? ==
> > There will be plenty of cleanup and polishing work to make Kartographer
> > work seamlessly. We will need to address the missing functionality
> reported
> > to us by the community, and help migrate existing wmflabs-based maps to
> the
> > new platform. Lastly, VE editing will need some more work to become
> > indispensable.
> >
> > Yet, our site is still set on the bigger target - maps for all of
> > Wikipedia. For that we are waiting for more hardware, plus we will need
> to
> > improve our static maps service to be able to handle wiki-load.
> >
> > Hardware task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125126
> >
> >
> > Thank you Max Semenik, Ed Sanders, Alex Kosiaris, Brandon Black, Chris
> > Koerner, Chris Steipp, Tomasz Finc, and Wes Moran for making this
> possible.
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(Cross-posting)
For Wikimedia folks who are interested in possible collaborations with OSM,
now seems like a good time to start thinking about possible presentations.
Staff from the Wikimedia Foundation, and/or Wikimedia volunteers from
around the US outside of the Seattle area, may want to start thinking about
travel plans.
For Wikimedia volunteers outside of Cascadia Wikimedians territory, you
might consider applying for WMF Travel and Participation Support grants [1].
If you're inside of Cascadia Wikimedians territory and would like to attend
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Clifford Snow <clifford(a)snowandsnow.us>
Date: Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 5:18 PM
Subject: [opensource-107] Seattle to host the 2016 OpenStreetMap State of
the Map US Conference
To: opensource-107-announce(a)meetup.com
I am excited to announce that Seattle was chosen to host the OpenStreetMap
2016 State of the Map US Conference. The conference will take place July
23-25 on SeattleU's campus. We chose SeattleU for their low cost, proximity
to Seattle and access to public transit. The food trucks near by didn't
hurt either.
We are looking for help! Let us know if you want to help. Request for
presentation proposals should be coming fairly soon. Start thinking about
what you want to present or teach.
The formal announcement can be found at:
https://openstreetmap.us/2016/02/sotmus-2016/
Clifford