I just created it. We'll need people to add to it, though. They'll need to sign up for access at:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_access - Ryan On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Nitin Gadia <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > We recently attended Wikimania in Washington DC, where we met Erik Möller, > 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. 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Labs-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l > _______________________________________________ Labs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
