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@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@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!
GuillaumeOn Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 8:18 PM, Hans A. Rosbach hans.a.rosbach@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@gemil.com
-- Guillaume Lederrey Operations Engineer, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation UTC+2 / CEST