My understanding was that there were two new engineering positions last year that were supposed to be dedicated to geolocation and mapping improvements. I get the impression that most of the improvements in the past year have been aimed at mobile platforms. I asked about the plans for geolocation and mapping on the Annual Plan talk page but have yet to see a response. I too am interested in the general subject of geolocation.
Pine On Jul 19, 2015 5:39 AM, "Nou Nouill" nounouill@gmail.com wrote:
Hi !
So today Geohack don't work few hours, once gain. It has been many times that Geohack is down these last months (and years). The previous issue was linked with the Tools labs problems (but not today, Tools Labs was working).
In addition to that maintenance problem, I don't see Geohack evolve those last years. The tool have a old design. It has different configurations for each language, so when a user do translation, he has to adapt to each configuration. Moreover, in plenty of language, Geohack have long lists of hundred links, with lot of useless links, because languages communities want to describe exhaustively web mappings service. So the presentation of Geohack is often very weighed down.
For me, Geohack is the more useful tools on Tools Labs with a massive visibility for the viewers (each coordinate on WM use Geohack and there are several hundred thousands coordinates). Geohack is also use by contributors (when I translate a article with a coordinate, It's usually more practice to check coordinate in Geohack).
So, I want to ask if the Foundation have a plan to improve Geohack ? I have the impression when I see https://tools.wmflabs.org that Geohack was mainly maintain by volunteer, but for me Geohack is a core item of the Wikimedia sphere. So I don't understand that situation since few years. I hope it's the place to do this comment.
Nouill. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe