Thanks Daniel for the update. Will there be a provision to highlight osm relation on wikipedia article ?
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_India/National_Highway_Network On 30 April 2011 09:28, Daniel Schwen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Guys, > > > How often we will update wiki mini atlas with openstreetmap ? > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiMiniAtlas > > Well, Tim asked me to comment on this thread, so here we go. > In the last few months I spent a great deal of time rewriting bot > front and back end of the WikiMiniAtlas. The new front end code is now > JQuery based and more compact. The backend code is more flexible and > allowes me to now support clickable map labels in 70 languages. Other > new features include > > * Short article synopsis when Ctrl+hovering over a label > * Highlighting all coordinates of the current article with click > navigation (try this on list articles with 100s of coordinates) > > My development version supports dynamic resizing of the map window. > This would make it fairly straight forward now to support new tile > sizes (WMA tiles are 128x128, OSM is 256x256). The other difference > compared to OSM is the mapprojection. My label backend used to be > designed for one particular mapprojection (lat-long). The added > flexibility in the new backend would make it possible to add support > for Mercator-like projections as OSM or GoogleMaps have. > > To make the story short: Supporting OSM tiles in the WMA jumped to the > top of my priority list. Due to IRL commitments I'm fairly tied up > with work until June. But this project is exciting and fun enough for > me to sneak in a few hours of coding here and there. > > Daniel > [[User:Dschwen]] > > _______________________________________________ > Maps-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l > -- Naveen Francis
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