It's great to hear that work is progressing
on this.
I'd like to see more interactive features on pages, for example live
air traffic, ground traffic, and marine traffic data; and weather conditions.
Pine
On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Yuri Astrakhan
<yastrakhan(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Pine, you are right. That list is not very
useful, and instead
should look something like this:
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Salzburg#Get_around
The bad news is that the tile service it uses is hosted on labs,
which means it cannot scale to the regular wikipedia-usage levels.
Plus there might be a potential policy problem there - default
lab-content loading on every page visit without user's consent.
The good news is that we are very close to launching a full-blown
WMF production-hosted tile service, based on the wonderful data from OSM.
See general info and some ideas people have proposed -
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps (feel free to add more)
On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 11:23 PM, Gergo Tisza <gtisza(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 11:01 PM, Pine W
<wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I just now realized how powerful these tools are when I started
clicking
> around.
>
>
>
https://tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?pagename=File%3AWhite-
cheeked_Starling_perching_on_a_rock.jpg¶ms=34.610576_N_135.54054
2_E_globe:Earth_class:object_&language=en
>
> Is there any chance of integrating some of these tools more
> directly
onto
> Wikipedia pages, and into mobile web/mobile
apps?
>
There is an ongoing project
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/1127/> to
integrate maps into MediaWiki; that's probably the best place to
catalog the use cases
of
Geohack and decide which can and need to be
supported by the new tools.
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