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@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@mit.edu <jrf@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.orgcomfortable 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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