Some examples of where there could be very fruitful collaboration between wikipedia and mapstory:
*An amazing article entitled "Territorial Evolution of North America". The article has all the information for each change in boundaries of non-native nations, and an animated gif map that is essentially a mapstory. People in mapstory can have all the tools to add annotations and increasing detail, and can create a dynamism that is in the spirit of wikipedia. - Article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_North_America - Animated map (a good example of a mapstory in wikipedia): http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/Non-Native-American-Nations-Territorial-Claims-over-NAFTA-countries-1750-2008.gif *Yellowstone fire. This article has a nice animated map as well, for which there is already a mapstory: - Article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_fire - Animation (again, essentially a mapstory): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:This_multi-colored_animation_shows_the_different_fires_that_ignited,_combined_and_spread_throughout_Yellowstone_from_Jun._30_to_Oct._2,_1988.ogv - mapstory: http://mapstory.org/maps/149 Mapstory is an enormous project that is in heavy development right now. Mapstories will eventually have smooth playback, with timesliders, and a large host of functionality. Nitin On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Nitin Gadia <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > We recently attended Wikimania in Washington DC, where we met Erik > Möller<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_M%C3%B6ller>, > who showed us Wikimedia Labs, telling us it would be a good fit. We're > interested in helping create a Wikimedia Labs project around serving * > mapstories*. A mapstory is a type of map that shows change over time, > which is, like wikipedia or openstreetmap (OSM, www.openstreetmap.org), > being developed in an online community built on the same standards of > openness, at *www.mapstory.org* <http://www.mapstory.org>. We are aware > that wikimedia and openstreetmap (OSM) are collaborating to serve OSM data > through wikimedia to be seen on wikipedia articles, and would love to do > the same. MapStory is inspired by both openstreetmap and wikipedia, and is > being built on the same standards of openness, and intends to be yet > another companion in the open knowledge community, and is to be governed in > similar ways by the MapStory Foundation. At the moment, MapStory is > invitation-based, as it is being developed, but it will be fully open to > anyone's registration. > > Examples of mapstories include: > *Events: Yellowstone Fire: http://mapstory.org/maps/149 > *Trends: Population Growth: http://mapstory.org/maps/162 > *General historical change: Africa: http://mapstory.org/maps/153, > walmart: http://mapstory.org/maps/60, NYC subway: > http://mapstory.org/maps/117/view > *Large scale mapstories - some mapstories will be enormous, allowing you > to eventually type in a time, and see the way the world was then. So, a > user might type in "1900", and see all the roads, buildings, land use, and > landscape down to very local levels, like you can with OSM now. > > The integration of mapstories into wikipedia and other wikimedia projects > would be extremely fruitful. I can imagine that any article about political > entities, events, and statistics can, and probably will, have a mapstory. > I'll reply to this message with some examples in a moment. > * > What do we need to do in order for us to establish a MapStory labs > project, or add ourselves to an existing one? *Unfortunately, I am not a > developer myself, but we can at least get started while the developers > crank out the core mapstory functionality. > > I've cc-ed Christopher Tucker, the founder of MapStory. > Please reply-all if you can :) > > > Thanks, > Nitin Gadia > Ames, Iowa, USA > MapStory Foundation > *www.mapstory.org* <http://www.mapstory.org> >
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