Emilio - this is so beautiful! Daniel - I beg to differ: a photo per km2 would add tremendous value for the right people and the right uses; geograph's mission is both inspiring and interesting.
SJ On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Daniel Schwen <[email protected]> wrote: > While increasing our worldwide image coverage is certainly desirable, > I think that the arbitrary metric of defining "coverage" as one image > per km^2 is not very useful at best and misleading at worst. > The necessary image density strongly depends on local features. Having > one image per km^2 in a City center (or even a single image inside a > building) is not nearly enough. On the other hand requiring one image > per km^2 in a desolate desert, or even a forrest is an unrealistic > requirement that will not add much value to commons. > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 12:15 PM, 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
