Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Maps of museums.

We've seen how QR code lets you move from a physical object to wikipedia but there is also the issue of going the other way. At the moment our museum articles can list a few leading exhibits and that's it. They also find it hard to explain where in a museum an item is. Both issues can be addressed by using maps. The problem is our current mapping methods based on GPS coordinates are to inaccurate for any museum exhibit much smaller than HMS alliance and don't cope very well if an article talks about an item in more than one museum. So we need highly detailed maps and a way to place items in them. The problem is that we are going beyond the detail level of open street maps. Still they are good enough for an example of what I mean: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Geni/map We clearly need better maps. We could with enough effort draw them ourselves but there is another possibility. At the GLAM-wiki event at the british museum it was mentioned that one of the reasons that museums were trying to do stuff with their metadate was that it was one of the few things that they hadn't already got tided up in rights agreements. Might this also not apply to maps? The method used for the demo is fairly clumsy but is fairly widely used ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Labelled_image_map_templates ) and has the advantage of needing no new mediawiki code. The maps won't work too well as part of an article in most cases which is another issue but we could ask for a new namespace and use a subpage of the talk page for the time being. -- geni _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org