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…
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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