This is a really cool idea. Now I want to go fill in the little holes in San Francisco: http://tools.wmflabs.org/commons-coverage/#13/37.7718/-122.4570
Thanks for sharing it (and putting it on Github). My one request would be that you provide a way to view the images themselves from the map. Ryan Kaldari On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi all; > > Since I watched the project Geograph Britain[1] long time ago, I dreamed > with a global version. I have been playing with maps (mostly Google Maps) > in the past years, but now that I'm migrating my tools to Wikimedia Labs, I > started to read about OpenStreetMap and Leaflet. > > I have made some tests and coded a pretty alpha version of the concept.[2] > It shows circles of 500m radius for every geolocated image on Commons > (there are about 4 million). Not all are shown at the same time, but only > 10,000 per zoom level. So you only have to make zoom on your city or in the > search box. > > Some examples: > * Barcelona http://tools.wmflabs.org/commons-coverage/#12/41.3927/2.1407 > * Moscow http://tools.wmflabs.org/commons-coverage/#10/55.7252/37.6290 > * Montevideo > http://tools.wmflabs.org/commons-coverage/#11/-34.8200/-56.2269 > > So, I would like to hear your opinions and suggestions about the idea of > scaling Wikimedia Commons into a project with at least 1 image per km2 > globally. > > The code is in GitHub[3] and it is forked merging 2 examples of the > thousands of Leaflet library examples available. Currently the code is > pretty simple and you can help to improve it. > > Regards > > [1] http://www.geograph.org.uk/ > [2] http://tools.wmflabs.org/commons-coverage/ > [3] https://github.com/emijrp/commons-coverage > > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > >
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