[Maps-l] Maps interface to the users

[Tim Alder]

Hello,
to 1.) I hope that we can use the export-tab in OSM to allowed editors 
to simple create maps in Mediawikis.

to 2.) For mark-ups I hope we find a system like Query-to-map [1] so 
that a short entry in the wiki makes thinks like river, borders, city 
districts and streets visible. There we need further development to 
merge it with the current extension for higher performance and rendering 
also in the static map. Also would it be nice if everything outside a 
specify area could draw darker... So help is welcome.

Additionally, I think we need a clickable wikipedia layer in OSM-maps 
else the users will ask us why they get such a wikipedia-layer at 
google-maps but not at wikipedia.

Greetings Kolossos

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Query-to-map




Marcin Cieslak schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> On a side of the extension discussion I asked myself a question:
> How should plain editors use the new maps?
> 
> I can imagine the following simple things that most people would
> probably want to do first:
> 
> 1. just put a static map in the article
> 2. overlay the static map with some simple layer of images (like it's
> done with templates using CSS)
> 
> How should they do (1)? Our current extensions provide usually some tag
> with coordinates as parameters. Do you think it would be feasible that
> we could allow use of OSM URLs, so that the user can just go to OSM, pan
> and zoom as they wish, pick a permalink or shortlink and paste it into
> some MediaWiki tag?
> 
> Any thoughts on solving (2) better? I thinking about something simpler
> than what we have now (since we should be able to provide custom layers
> anyway at some point).
> 
> 
> 
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