[Foundation-l] Proposal for New Project Wikirec

[Daniel Mayer]

--- Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> There is indeed funding for WikiData. Programming will start within two 
> weeks. WikiData will be a buildingblock within the MediaWiki software. 
> It will indeed enable new projects.
> 
> Initially there are two prime candidates for Wikidata: Wiktionary and 
> Wikispecies. The implementation of "the ultimate wiktionary" is part of 
> the implementation of Wikidata.

For Wikimaps to work, a single record would need to be IDd as being associated
with a particular point, line, polygon, or raster coordinate feature. That
record would contain one to many fields of user-inputable and human readable
data. Developing a way to tie that into a true wiki-editable GIS (meaning users
could move points, lines, and polygons; since rasters are effectively images,
editing them will be difficult) will require a separate module (call that the
WikiGIS module if you like). That module would also need to support exporting
to popular GIS formats, such as shapefiles and geodatabases. 

-- mav



		
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