Anyone who wants to participate in this discussion is welcome to join the hangout.
How about next Monday, December 21, 19:00 UTC / 2:00pm EST / 11:00 am Pacific
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 10:14 PM, Tim Alder tim@alder-digital.de wrote:
Hello Yuri, if you look on the updated version of the map from Simon[1] you can see that we use now text labels for Wikipedia entries.
This is a design element from the WikiMiniAtlas and I think it has an positiv effect for the user to set the visual focus on Wikipedia content. It's also the aim to look different that google maps and it's a quick (and dirty) way to multilingual maps. ;-)
The problem we have now is, that we have on zommlevels that are on Country level tons of duplications because we have the Wikipedia-label and the Text from OSM background. If we only switch to a background style I would miss useful informations from OSM like street names. So it would be interesting to discuse if we could get an map where objects with an Wikipedia/Wikidata tag are transparent. We can also talk about if we can get a vector tiles layer with these objects from my database to use the geojson tiles in Leaflet... I also see a chance that labels are becoming more consitant during panning and zooming in.
So perhaps it would be possible if you could prepair an hangout to talk about this and find a date for it via doodle or so. Europes evening hours would be fine for me, but it's christmas time and the people are busy.
Best regards, Tim alias Kolossos
[1] https://tools.wmflabs.org/wiwosm/osm-gadget-leaflet/#/?lang=en&article=L...