James,
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Will their still be a way to get a wide choice of
competing commercial map
services from geographical coordinates?
As you can via location templates (Template:Geobox cool) and Geohack?
I don't believe there are any plans to change things there.
What happens when you try to print an interactive map?
It prints the map! :) Which I think is a good thing. What do you think?
Do we think that the Foundation can offer solutions for
maps accessible to
the visually impaired at least as good as those of commercial map
services?
Good question. Can you tell me more about your concerns here? We should
learn from other services and make sure we bring these lessons back to our
own engineers.
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Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison - Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation