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@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 11:01 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@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_...
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. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l