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.
So, no mobile support as yet? Your example map was a big blank spot in mobile mode.
When I did click through for the "desktop" version of the page, the map displayed the same thoroughly annoying behavior as all these maps do when I encounter them. That is, when I tried to scroll the page, I wound up scrolling the map instead.
I have never found interactive maps to be particularly useful anyplace I've found them throughout the web. They're too small and limited in functionality; when I've been given the option, I've usually clicked through to get a regular Google Maps page.
Sent from my Droid Turbo Elias Friedman A.S., CCEMT-P אליהו מתתיהו בן צבי elipongo@gmail.com "יְהִי אוֹר" On May 2, 2016 5:24 PM, "Chris Koerner" ckoerner@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 _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
Elias Friedman, 02/05/2016 23:42:
I have never found interactive maps to be particularly useful anyplace I've found them throughout the web. They're too small and limited in functionality; when I've been given the option, I've usually clicked through to get a regular Google Maps page.
What defines "regular"? The available space? Is an OpenStreetMap.org page also "regular" and to you prefer a link over transclusion?
Federico
I was also wondering about OpenStreetMap, and if there was any sort of cooperative integration with Wikimedia projects.
As far as useful maps, the genealogy society I am a member of has these incredible resource maps.
Main locality page: http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~community~-502272~K
Resource Map: http://data.jewishgen.org/maps/mapdist8.asp?lat=53.1167&long=19.0500
It's Google Maps but I think it's really great. There's no mobile version of these pages but I checked that the map works pretty well on my iPhone. It is content rich and interactive, pointing to resources.
I have also created maps that trace biographical data for a Holocaust survivor in my family that mapped where he was during and after the war. It is probably overkill for many biographical entries but for important historical figures it might be sort of cool.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1hy-PVwQ92xYXlscW0_k1-Si0hKw&usp=sharin...
I also like leaflet -- http://leafletjs.com/ -- very gorgeous.
- Erika
*Erika Herzog* Wikipedia *User:BrillLyle* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BrillLyle Secretary, Wikimedia NYC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC
On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 6:29 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Elias Friedman, 02/05/2016 23:42:
I have never found interactive maps to be particularly useful anyplace I've found them throughout the web. They're too small and limited in functionality; when I've been given the option, I've usually clicked through to get a regular Google Maps page.
What defines "regular"? The available space? Is an OpenStreetMap.org page also "regular" and to you prefer a link over transclusion?
Federico
Brill Lyle, 03/05/2016 01:10:
I was also wondering about OpenStreetMap, and if there was any sort of cooperative integration with Wikimedia projects.
See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia ; https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps (the subject of this thread) is arguably the main integration project, but if you're interested in historical maps maybe http://wikimaps.wikimedia.fi/ fits better.
Nemo
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@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 _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org javascript:; https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
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