Maybe the tile viewer project could be segmented in a way that it could be spread over multiple volunteer developer tranches. Quim, what do you think?
Pine On Oct 26, 2015 10:37 PM, "Brian Wolff" bawolff@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/26/15, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Assuming that this image will be released with a Commons-compatible license, sooner or later (maybe many years later), there will be a use
case
for increasing the Commons file size limit to 194GB:
http://www.dpreview.com/articles/5817599570/astronomers-create-46-gigapixel-...
That's not going to happen.
Perhaps in a timeframe in the nearer future, could MediaViewer be tweaked to download and show only small portions at a time of large images and/or tiled sets of of images? I think this feature might get a lot of use from the moment of deployment.
Commons currently uses tool labs for this (See the interactive large image viewer like, on e.g.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:South_Station,_Elevated,_and_Dewey_S... ). I'm sure this would be a cool feature for media viewer. I doubt its going to happen in the near future based on current priorities (Obviously, its open source, so anyone could submit a patch. Maybe it would make a cool gsoc project to have a tile viewer in media viewer, albeit that's kind of on the large size for a gsoc project.
-- -bawolff
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