Dunno if any of the OSM-y folks are planning to attend but I bet this would be up their alley. At the very least, it would probably be good to get their input on a project like this.


On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Jon Robson <jdlrobson@gmail.com> wrote:
Dan awesome! Glad there is some interest - this should be a lot of fun! :-)

On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Quim Gil <qgil@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> fyi
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [WikimediaMobile] Zurich Hackathon: Creating a map namespace
> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 12:54:52 -0800
> From: Jon Robson <jdlrobson@gmail.com>
> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org>, mobile-l
> <mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
>
> This may be extremely ambitious, but I'm keen to kick off development
> around the creation of a map namespace during the Zurich hackathon.
>
> The goal would be to setup an editable map namespace that could be
> used for a variety of things, one of which would be adding a map view
> to the Special:Nearby page provided via the mobile site. The goal is a
> proof of concept not necessarily anything production ready (but that
> would be great if we could get to that point!)
>
> Please let me know if you would also be interested on hacking such a
> thing -
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Z%C3%BCrich_Hackathon_2014/Geo_Namespace
> - or if doing so would be a terrible idea (but if you have to go down
> that route please provide constructive reasoning on what would be a
> less terrible idea)
>
> Excited to hack on cool things in Zurich!
>
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