hahaha awesome :) Just signed up. I'm not a developer, but I suppose you learn by doing. I'll just have others jump in too in order to establish things :)
Chris - check it out (scroll down to MapStory): https://labsconsole.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Ask/-5B-5BResource-20Type::project-5D-5D/-3F/-3FMember/-3FDescription/mainlabel%3D-2D/searchlabel%3Dprojects/offset%3D0 nitin On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Ryan Lane <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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