Dear Yugo
yes i agree your idea
is a really great
here is a link to some good historical maps in German you may have seen
http://www.geog.fu-berlin.de/2bik/Kap4/kap4_1-06.php3
http://www.geog.fu-berlin.de/2bik/Kap4/images/4_1-05.jpg
Cloud maps is a great idea and collaboration.
Another aside map interest is the new uses of satellite maps
one site called mongabay.com shows some habitat images in progress
http://news.mongabay.com/2011/0603-cao_atoms.html
quote:
"A new
airplane-based remote-sensing and analysis system will enable scientists
to catalog tree species as they create three-dimensional maps of
tropical forests.
Unveiled today at the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos, California
by Greg Asner of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology
at Stanford University, the newest version of the Carnegie Airborne
Observatory (CAO) will offer powerful insights into the composition and
biology of tropical forests."
A good source is Proj4J with reverse mercator grids for 3d
kind regards
Timo
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:17:48 +0200
From: hugo.lpz@gmail.com
To: maps-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Maps-l] Cloud mapmaking for wikipedia
Thanks Tim,
I'm a bit aware of the new display possibilities. But I'm looking for *cloud mapmaking* (editing) for encyclopedic maps such the Roman empire in 120 CE, the Tang dynasty ca 700, etc. Is there around a such project/system/website where I —as a graphist— can create and edit historical maps, adding specific shapes, coloring them, becoming an online-cloud map that can then be displayed in Wikipedia the same way as WikiMiniAtlas.
Is there a cloud mapmaking tool for wikipedia ?
-- Yug
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:07:12 +1000
From: tim o <tigre7t@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Maps-l] Maps-l Digest, Vol 27, Issue 3
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Dear Yug
did you see this site? it is up and running
Wiki Mini Atlas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiMiniAtlas
regards
Timo
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 01:06:34 +0200
From: hugo.lpz@gmail.com
To: maps-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Maps-l] Maps-l Digest, Vol 27, Issue 3
Dear all,The mapmakers using Inkscape / photoshop on wikipedia (WP:GL/M) to generate the articles' maps currently work file after file, which generate scores of background / data duplication which are increasingly hard to manage. Also, we are willing to know : is there any ongoing project/system/extension to create a kind of free google maps where we ?graphists? may *create and edits* encyclopedic maps in the clouds ?
I noticed :
* http://toolserver.org/~osm/styles/ - display many layers, no edit functions.
* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Map_extensions - don't seems to have such extension.* the online editing tool is missing ?
Regards,--
Yug
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