Hi Yaron, thanks for responding and great insights as usual. These are times I wish I had
more programming experience.. I’d enthusiastically take on the task of bringing points
data entry and query back to page forms. For us Enterprise MW users I would argue that
this feature is essential in every enterprise application whether people know it or not,
ha ha.. Being able to quickly graphically annotate an image of parking lot or an exit plan
or a Road closure .. These are Basic enterprise applications.
I would think you would want to recover this capability in page Foms just to keep all such
data collection under one extension. Otherwise some lesser extension will come along and
try to do it.
If you do decide to include this in page forms, do you have any thoughts on How many hours
of effort to implement?
I’m not sure which I’m more excited about, the prospect of internal maps added to page
forms or the project management extension that you mentioned not too long ago. Please
don’t ever underestimate your contribution to the enterprise world. It’s amazing. You
really have done and continue to do great work.
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On: 07 June 2019 18:03, "Yaron Koren"
<yaron@wikiworks.com<mailto:yaron@wikiworks.com>> wrote:
Hi Rich,
It should be noted that the use of images as maps comprises two parts: entering the data,
and viewing the data. I don't believe either one is currently possible, though I could
be wrong. For data entry, I think the easiest way to add support for it would be to modify
either the "openlayers" or "leaflet" input types in Page Forms to
allow for using an uploaded image as the map - both OpenLayers and Leaflet inherently
allow for such a thing. And for viewing the data - Semantic MediaWiki has a
"leaflet" result format (via the Maps extension), while Cargo has an
"openlayers" format. Both could similarly be modified to allow for displaying
query results on an uploaded image.
It should be noted that, about ten years ago, both entry and viewing of image-based maps
were possible, via the extensions then called Semantic Maps and Semantic Forms. This is
one of those features that just stopped being supported, due I guess to lack of interest.
Which is too bad, because it does seem useful for a lot of different applications. But it
never really got usage before. Maybe now is a good time to bring this feature back, if
enough people show an interest in it.
I should also note that there's an extension called Semantic Image Annotator:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Image_Annotator<https:…
It lets you both add and query data, but the data it deals with is rectangles on an image
and not points, so it may not be what you're looking for. Maybe it's fine,
though.
-Yaron
On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 12:08 PM Evans, Richard K. (GRC-H000) via Semediawiki-user
<semediawiki-<mailto:semediawiki-user@lists.sourceforge.net>user@lists.source<mailto:user@lists.source>forge.net>
wrote:
Happy Friday - What extension is best for annotating interior floor plans and user maps
uploaded as images?
Is anyone doing this? What do people here recommend?
I've been trying to learn how to use the "Maps" extension [1] but it's
not clear to me if custom interior maps are possible with Maps.
OpenLayers [2] and Cargo [3] look promising but I don't know how to get started with
them for custom interior maps. I dive in and learn it if I knew upfront that they had the
capability. Can anyone tell me what they're doing?
/Rich
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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Maps<https://urldefense.proofpo…
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenLayers<https://urldefense.p…
[3]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cargo<https://urldefense.proofp…
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