You can already create any tool in wmf labs, and use it as an iframe into
any wiki project. This is exactly what the existing tools
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/Future_Plans#Existing_Tools> do (at
this point, most of them don't use the new maps service, but they hopefully
will very soon). Once done, those tools can be used from wikipedia, as long
as they are not used by default - in other words a user has to make an
action before the map is loaded. An example would be the little drop down
map that you see next to geo coordinates in some articles.
Eventually, if community decides that our maps are good and needed, we will
ramp up the number of servers to handle the full wikipedia load and build
tools right into wikipedia to show maps in the articles by default.
Please document your use case here
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/Future_Plans> so that everyone could
comment on it.
Also, tile server is already capable of producing GeoJSON for its tiles.
For example, see
https://maps.wikimedia.org/osm-intl/7/37/47.json?nogeo (which
is the geojson behind this image
<https://maps.wikimedia.org/osm-intl/7/37/47@2x.png>). The ?nogeo is a
debug flag to view the json without all the geo data, thus making it much
smaller.
We could also produce the needed geojson data directly from the database,
for an area that is different than one tile. It would require some work
though.
Thanks!
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 4:16 AM, T Fish <tfish(a)guerillero.net> wrote:
Is there a way to get an extension to display the tile
server on
wikipedia? It would be useful to be able to display dynamic maps (with
something like a GeoJson) instead of static SVGs. I know the roads
project would find this extremely useful.
--Tom
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