Ok, to clarify, the viewer there is open source. We could just create a
mediawiki extension that integrated the viewer. But then...we still need map
data on our servers. Of course we've been talking/toying about/with ways to
do that for a while :)
/Alterego
On 9/28/05, Brian <reflection(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Don't other sites integrate our data into their service? And if their data
is free, open, and suits our mission we bring it under the wikimedia
umbrella? I don't like the idea of having iframes at Wikipedia personally.
It seems to be a slippery slope. In MediaWiki for other projects, sure why
not...
/Alterego
http://www.qwikly.com
On 9/28/05, jrf(a)mit.edu <jrf(a)mit.edu > wrote:
re: GIS in MediaWiki.
With $wgRawHthml = true, the following HTML puts a map in a wiki
article.
<div style="float: right">
<iframe
src="http://openlayers.org/viewer/?toolbar=1"
width="400px" height="400px"
scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"
frameborder="0">
</iframe>
</div>
What modifications might make
wikipedia.org <http://wikipedia.org>comfortable with
the security
of this type of iframe? The whitelist feature in MediaWiki might be
extended to allow particular domain names in the src attribute.
OpenLayers is a young open source project. Upcoming releases will make
it
easy to put markers in the maps and to use more backdrop mapserver
accessible on the 'net --- currently it can load WMS and WFS layers.
John
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