[Maps-l] Status and future plans of OSM Wikipedia integration?

[Naveen Francis]

Thanks Daniel for the update.

Will there be a provision to highlight osm relation on wikipedia article ?

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_India/National_Highway_Network


On 30 April 2011 09:28, Daniel Schwen <daniel at schwen.de> wrote:

> Hey Guys,
>
> > How often we will update wiki mini atlas with openstreetmap ?
> > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiMiniAtlas
>
> Well, Tim asked me to comment on this thread, so here we go.
> In the last few months I spent a great deal of time rewriting bot
> front and back end of the WikiMiniAtlas. The new front end code is now
> JQuery based and more compact. The backend code is more flexible and
> allowes me to now support clickable map labels in 70 languages. Other
> new features include
>
> * Short article synopsis when Ctrl+hovering over a label
> * Highlighting all coordinates of the current article with click
> navigation (try this on list articles with 100s of coordinates)
>
> My development version supports dynamic resizing of the map window.
> This would make it fairly straight forward now to support new tile
> sizes (WMA tiles are 128x128, OSM is 256x256). The other difference
> compared to OSM is the mapprojection. My label backend used to be
> designed for one particular mapprojection (lat-long). The added
> flexibility in the new backend would make it possible to add support
> for Mercator-like projections as OSM or GoogleMaps have.
>
> To make the story short: Supporting OSM tiles in the WMA jumped to the
> top of my priority list. Due to IRL commitments I'm fairly tied up
> with work until June. But this project is exciting and fun enough for
> me to sneak in a few hours of coding here and there.
>
> Daniel
> [[User:Dschwen]]
>
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Naveen Francis
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