On 30 April 2011 09:28, Daniel Schwen
<daniel@schwen.de> wrote:
Hey Guys,
Well, Tim asked me to comment on this thread, so here we go.
In the last few months I spent a great deal of time rewriting bot
front and back end of the WikiMiniAtlas. The new front end code is now
JQuery based and more compact. The backend code is more flexible and
allowes me to now support clickable map labels in 70 languages. Other
new features include
* Short article synopsis when Ctrl+hovering over a label
* Highlighting all coordinates of the current article with click
navigation (try this on list articles with 100s of coordinates)
My development version supports dynamic resizing of the map window.
This would make it fairly straight forward now to support new tile
sizes (WMA tiles are 128x128, OSM is 256x256). The other difference
compared to OSM is the mapprojection. My label backend used to be
designed for one particular mapprojection (lat-long). The added
flexibility in the new backend would make it possible to add support
for Mercator-like projections as OSM or GoogleMaps have.
To make the story short: Supporting OSM tiles in the WMA jumped to the
top of my priority list. Due to IRL commitments I'm fairly tied up
with work until June. But this project is exciting and fun enough for
me to sneak in a few hours of coding here and there.
Daniel
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