Maps-l August 2017

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Things that we should/could work on
by Derk-Jan Hartman 31 Aug '17

31 Aug '17

I've been playing a bit with maps recently and identified a set of low hanging fruit, that are currently lacking, prohibitive and/or need improvement. These are great opportunities for those enthusiastic about maps. Most are rather small, but not enough of a priority for the foundation to work on. 1. Create a directory of tile providers services that are opensource/opendata etc.. We seem to have a lot of different tile providers and services integrated, but we don't really keep track of who does and uses what. There is a nice https://leaflet-extras.github.io/leaflet-providers/preview/ that would be awesome to have as toolforge focused for wikimedia. This can improve our mutual knowledge of such tile providers. It took me a long time to get a decent understanding of all the tiles that we have/can use in the bazillion other tools. 2. Because http://tools.wmflabs.org/locator/coordinates.php incorporates google maps and was somewhat broken to begin with, I started experimenting with a new version: http://tools.wmflabs.org/locator/coordinates2.php just for fun. This tool is mostly used by the Dutch Wikimedia community to add coordinates to their wiki and they really want to keep their satellite view. It can also be used for en.wikipedia and commons. There is another tool called https://tools.wmflabs.org/locator-tool/, which is specific to Commons. It would be interesting to see if we can generalise that tool to be more wiki agnostic, using the abstractions that the locator tool has. 3. I'm working on running an experiment with a gadget on the mobile website, to see if there can be made a case for stronger mobile web integration with our new map service https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174538 4: The JS modules in Kartographer need some love. More support for JS hooks and promises, will make them much easier to reuse them. For instance, it's impossible to use the map link or mapframe modules and provide slight enhancements or integrations, because you can't tell when they have finished opening etc. 5: Split off Special:NearBy of MobileFrontend and enhance it with maps.wikimedia.org 6: The list of sidebar services cannot be easily changed right now and is hardcoded in the extension. Moving it into a MediaWiki: json file would greatly improve this. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152971 Ergo, many opportunities, hope this inspires people !!! DJ

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meet up / mapping party tonight at Wikimania at 6:30pm
by Mikel Maron 13 Aug '17

13 Aug '17

Seen many of you here at Wikimania (👋 Susannah, Deb, Andy, Katie) and at 6:30pm after the group photo, OpenStreetMap Montreal is organizing a mapping party -- let's gather outside to talk maps and create maps. -Mikel ps tomorrow at 2pm in Joyce/Jarry, holding a Mapathon!

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Re: [Maps-l] Maps using Kartographer
by Deborah Tankersley 03 Aug '17

03 Aug '17

Hello and thanks for writing :) Norwegian Wikipedia already has mapframe enabled—have you had a chance to play with the code yet? If not, learning how to use mapframe is fairly easy for basic things and help can be found here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/how_to:_embedded_maps. More information about the map project and service can be found here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps. Also, for general discussion and questions, please send an email to: Maps-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org for great knowledge sharing opportunities. Let me know if you have further questions after taking a look at the documentation. As Guillaume mentioned in his email, our engineering resources are quite small right now, but I think everything you're wanting to do can be done right now. Cheers, Deb -- deb tankersley irc: debt Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 3:31 PM, Guillaume Lederrey <glederrey(a)wikimedia.org > wrote: > Hello! > > Great to see that you have interesting projects around maps! At this > point, the maps team is very reduced, and we are not in a position > where we can offer much support. That being said, we'll do what we > can! There is already some limited integration between maps and > wikidata, which might be sufficient to do some of what you want to do. > But honestly, I'm very much not familiar with that part. > > I added Deb in CC to this mail. She's our product owner and she is > probably the best person to orient you in the right direction, or at > least make sure your idea are captured somewhere... > > I hope we can find a way to move that forward! > > Have fun! > > Guillaume > > On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 8:18 PM, Hans A. Rosbach > <hans.a.rosbach(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I saw you posted to Maps-l about usage of Kartographer. It seems to me > you > > have come quite far with that on fr-wiki, and I'm interested in such a > > solution for no-wiki. > > > > I would like to get in contact with someone who has both knowledge in the > > topic and is willing to discuss this with me. If that is you, fine, > > otherwise perhaps you could introduce me to someone. > > > > I would like to get to the point where it is sufficient to add something > > like {{kart}} (map in Norwegian) into an article, getting sufficient > > information from Wikidata to display the mapframe. Another case is > replacing > > the position maps in infoboxes with an interactive mapframe. A geogroup > > usage like you discussed in may is obviously also of interest. > > > > Regards, > > > > Hans A: Rosbach > > > > User haros on wikipedia. > > > > I also have e-mail haros.at.wikipedia(a)gemil.com > > > > -- > Guillaume Lederrey > Operations Engineer, Discovery > Wikimedia Foundation > UTC+2 / CEST >

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