Hello,
The Maps team at the Wikimedia Foundation is getting closer to make it possible to add interactive maps https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps to Wikipedia. If you've ever used services like Google Maps or Mapquest you may be familiar with interactive maps. We’d like to invite editors to have a conversation on how these maps might be used within articles. We've put together information on how these maps and their style works from a technical perspective https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/Conversation_about_interactive_map_use – where the data comes from, how maps are styled, how to add an interactive map, and a few example use cases.
In particular we would like to focus the discussion around three key questions (open discussion outside these questions is welcome too).
* What types of articles would use interactive maps?
* How do these articles differ in their requirements?
* Are there any classes of articles whose map styling requirement is fundamentally in conflict with other article classes, thus requiring multiple styles?
If you are interested, please visit https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/Conversation_about_interactive_map_use to learn more and get involved.
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