Curious stuff I find while doing tests... A line of white dots (pictures)
along dozens of km in the North of Europe
http://tools.wmflabs.org/commons-coverage/#7/69.071/19.709

Can you imagine what it means? :-) Zoom to solve.


2014-06-20 17:13 GMT+02:00 Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada <[email protected]>:

> 2014-06-19 20:58 GMT+02:00 Ryan Kaldari <[email protected]>:
>
> 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
>>
>>
> Yes, it is a basic feature. Now the images are shown from the zoom 10.
>
>
>>
>> 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
>>>
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