Will their still be a way to get a wide choice of competing commercial map
services from geographical coordinates?
What happens when you try to print an interactive map?
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?
On Monday, May 2, 2016, Chris Koerner <ckoerner(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
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.
--
Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison - Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
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