On Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:31:27 +0200
Marcin Cieslak <saper(a)saper.info> wrote:
Hello,
On a side of the extension discussion I asked myself a question:
How should plain editors use the new maps?
I can imagine the following simple things that most people would
probably want to do first:
1. just put a static map in the article
2. overlay the static map with some simple layer of images (like it's
done with templates using CSS)
How should they do (1)? Our current extensions provide usually some tag
with coordinates as parameters. Do you think it would be feasible that
we could allow use of OSM URLs, so that the user can just go to OSM, pan
and zoom as they wish, pick a permalink or shortlink and paste it into
some MediaWiki tag?
Any thoughts on solving (2) better? I thinking about something simpler
than what we have now (since we should be able to provide custom layers
anyway at some point).
I was working putting some icons and popus on a map using openlayer
but I wish that my system works with my regular cellphone
openlayer don't work fine with that cellphone then I plain to make some program to
transform
the info that I put on maps to a bitmap and merge with map tiles
If I do that generating statics map can be almost trivial
These statics maps can contain my icons or larger images so we can solve point 2 also.
Also we can make a permalink too.
I think that can be simple for the user.
Saludos , Jorge
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Jorge Luis Chamorro <chamorro(a)plug.org.ar>