For those of you interested in automatic map generation for MediaWiki, check out the very first screenshot of my emerging "geo" software: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Geo
Continue? Or walk away in disgust?
Magnus
'Seems cool... Does it work for maps outside Germany ?
Traroth
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Would these happen to be open maps, with editable place names for language-specific name variations?
Cool start!
James
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Traroth schrieb:
'Seems cool... Does it work for maps outside Germany ?
Sure it does - except there currently *are* none ;-)
The point is to develop the maps together using a wiki. Almost as crazy as writing an encyclopedia, no? :-)
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--- Magnus Manske magnus.manske@web.de wrote:
Traroth schrieb:
'Seems cool... Does it work for maps outside Germany ?
Sure it does - except there currently *are* none ;-)
The point is to develop the maps together using a wiki. Almost as crazy as writing an encyclopedia, no? :-)
Love it.
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On Jan 14, 2005, at 11:26 AM, Magnus Manske wrote:
For those of you interested in automatic map generation for MediaWiki, check out the very first screenshot of my emerging "geo" software: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Geo
Continue? Or walk away in disgust?
Magnus __
Thumbs up from here.
--- Magnus Manske magnus.manske@web.de wrote:
For those of you interested in automatic map generation for MediaWiki, check out the very first screenshot of my emerging "geo" software: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Geo
Continue? Or walk away in disgust?
Yes - please continue. SVG is certainly the right direction.
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Magnus Manske a écrit:
For those of you interested in automatic map generation for MediaWiki, check out the very first screenshot of my emerging "geo" software: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Geo
Continue? Or walk away in disgust?
Magnus
Walk toward in faith :-)
Anthere
Magnus Manske wrote:
For those of you interested in automatic map generation for MediaWiki, check out the very first screenshot of my emerging "geo" software: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Geo
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 4. A map of any square would be built by adding a series of overlays. These could be (among other things) a. Contour lines, including shore lines. b. Rivers and other aquatic features c. Cities, towns, villages and other communities. d. Political boundaries, both national and sub-national e. Transportation systems f. Special features g. Historical references, where clicking on the feature would take us to the Wikipedia article about the event that happened there.
If there is any one major criticism that I would have about the discussion of this topic so far, it's that it has been infected by a lot of in-the-box kind of thinking. A map project has a far greater potential if we look at it from the ground up, and avoid the more limited popular focus on the role of maps.
Ec
Ray Saintonge (saintonge@telus.net) [050115 06:11]:
Magnus Manske wrote:
For those of you interested in automatic map generation for MediaWiki, check out the very first screenshot of my emerging "geo" software: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Geo
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:
[...]
discussion of this topic so far, it's that it has been infected by a lot of in-the-box kind of thinking. A map project has a far greater potential if we look at it from the ground up, and avoid the more limited popular focus on the role of maps.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/ is trying to put together an open-content map for the UK. (Whereas US maps are public domain, UK ones are all owned by Ordnance Survey.) They might be quite interested. (They gave a presentation at Dorkbot London and used Wikipedia as their proof of concept ;-)
(Dorkbot: "Poeple doing strange things with electricity": http://www.dorkbot.org/)
- d.
--- 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.
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