During the Zurich hackathon, DJ Hartman, Aude and I knocked up a generic maps prototype extension [1]. We have noticed that many maps like extensions keep popping up and believed it was time we standardised on one that all these extensions could use so we share data better.
We took a look at all the existing use cases and tried to imagine what such an extension would look like that wouldn't be too tied into a specific use case.
The extension we came up with was a map extension that introduces a Map namespace where data for the map is stored in raw GeoJSON and can be edited via a JavaScript map editor interface. It also allows the inclusion of maps in wiki articles via a map template.
Dan Andreescu also created a similar visualisation namespace which may want to be folded into this as a map could be seen as a visualisation. I invite Dan to comment on this with further details :-)!
I'd be interested in people's thoughts around this extension. In particular I'd be interested in the answer to the question "For my usecase A what would the WikiMaps extension have to support for me to use it".
Thanks for your involvement in this discussion. Let's finally get a maps extension up on a wikimedia box! Jon
I think the most important feature is to create on serverside a thumbnail for each map by using something like http://phantomjs.org/ This thumbnails should than be in the big WMF caches. The map would become interactively only in the case a user click on it. This would reduce the numbers of request for loading a page and JS overhead and it would increase the stability of the system. Without this feature I afraid to never see the extension live in Wikipedia.
Other nice features you can see at umap.openstreetmap.fr: *Choosing different backgrounds *POIs with interactive descriptions *Geometry import from OSM (WIWOSM) *different layers *...
Greeting Tim alias Kolossos
Am 14.05.2014 00:34, schrieb Jon Robson:
During the Zurich hackathon, DJ Hartman, Aude and I knocked up a generic maps prototype extension [1]. We have noticed that many maps like extensions keep popping up and believed it was time we standardised on one that all these extensions could use so we share data better.
We took a look at all the existing use cases and tried to imagine what such an extension would look like that wouldn't be too tied into a specific use case.
The extension we came up with was a map extension that introduces a Map namespace where data for the map is stored in raw GeoJSON and can be edited via a JavaScript map editor interface. It also allows the inclusion of maps in wiki articles via a map template.
Dan Andreescu also created a similar visualisation namespace which may want to be folded into this as a map could be seen as a visualisation. I invite Dan to comment on this with further details :-)!
I'd be interested in people's thoughts around this extension. In particular I'd be interested in the answer to the question "For my usecase A what would the WikiMaps extension have to support for me to use it".
Thanks for your involvement in this discussion. Let's finally get a maps extension up on a wikimedia box! Jon
[1] https://github.com/jdlrobson/WikiMaps
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Tim I completely agree. This is something we need to setup. Patches very much welcomed! :-)
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 7:51 AM, Tim Alder tim@alder-digital.de wrote:
I think the most important feature is to create on serverside a thumbnail for each map by using something like http://phantomjs.org/ This thumbnails should than be in the big WMF caches. The map would become interactively only in the case a user click on it. This would reduce the numbers of request for loading a page and JS overhead and it would increase the stability of the system. Without this feature I afraid to never see the extension live in Wikipedia.
Other nice features you can see at umap.openstreetmap.fr: *Choosing different backgrounds *POIs with interactive descriptions *Geometry import from OSM (WIWOSM) *different layers *...
Greeting Tim alias Kolossos
Am 14.05.2014 00:34, schrieb Jon Robson:
During the Zurich hackathon, DJ Hartman, Aude and I knocked up a generic maps prototype extension [1]. We have noticed that many maps like extensions keep popping up and believed it was time we standardised on one that all these extensions could use so we share data better.
We took a look at all the existing use cases and tried to imagine what such an extension would look like that wouldn't be too tied into a specific use case.
The extension we came up with was a map extension that introduces a Map namespace where data for the map is stored in raw GeoJSON and can be edited via a JavaScript map editor interface. It also allows the inclusion of maps in wiki articles via a map template.
Dan Andreescu also created a similar visualisation namespace which may want to be folded into this as a map could be seen as a visualisation. I invite Dan to comment on this with further details :-)!
I'd be interested in people's thoughts around this extension. In particular I'd be interested in the answer to the question "For my usecase A what would the WikiMaps extension have to support for me to use it".
Thanks for your involvement in this discussion. Let's finally get a maps extension up on a wikimedia box! Jon
[1] https://github.com/jdlrobson/WikiMaps
Maps-l mailing list Maps-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l
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