--- Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
This question makes me regret that I don't have the technical skills to develop my own vision of a map project that would be subject to the principles of wiki editing, notably that anybody can edit any map. Thus: 1. The 1-degree "square" is the fundamental building block of the world map. 2. A map may be scaled, with smaller squares showing a greater level of detail. 3. The simplest level of map does nothing more than answer whether that square is all land, all water, or mixed land and water. This may even seem simplistic and too diagrammatic, but it would certainly let you know which squares need more work
That sounds like a raster map, which is not a good choice for this type of thing. Vectors (points, lines, polygons) are far more widespread and useful for mapping (rasters are mostly used for analysis and for aerial/satellite photography).
WikiGIS.org/.com and WikiMaps.org/.com are both owned by the foundation already. Maps.wikimedia.org would work too, as would having this be part of Commons.
I'd like to help along such a project with my GIS knowledge regardless of where the project ends up.
Meta user Tschirl ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tschirl ) is very interested in marrying wiki software with mapping functionality. An example of the open source GIS software is the the project admin for is at http://www.mapbender.org/demoserver.html
Interesting stuff.
-- mav
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