Dear Yugo 
yes i agree your idea 
is a really great 

here is a link to some good historical maps in German you may have seen

http://www.geog.fu-berlin.de/2bik/Kap4/kap4_1-06.php3
http://www.geog.fu-berlin.de/2bik/Kap4/images/4_1-05.jpg

Cloud maps is a great idea and collaboration. 



Another aside map interest is the new uses of satellite maps 
one site called mongabay.com shows some habitat images in progress 

http://news.mongabay.com/2011/0603-cao_atoms.html

quote:
"A new 
airplane-based remote-sensing and analysis system will enable scientists
 to catalog tree species as they create three-dimensional maps of 
tropical forests. 



Unveiled today at the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos, California 
by Greg Asner of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology
 at Stanford University, the newest version of the Carnegie Airborne 
Observatory (CAO) will offer powerful insights into the composition and 
biology of tropical forests." 

A good source is Proj4J with reverse mercator grids for 3d

kind regards 
Timo
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:17:48 +0200
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Maps-l] Cloud mapmaking for wikipedia

Thanks Tim,I'm a bit aware of the new display possibilities. But I'm looking 
for *cloud mapmaking* (editing) for encyclopedic maps such the Roman empire in 
120 CE, the Tang dynasty ca 700, etc. Is there around a such 
project/system/website where I —as a graphist— can create and edit historical 
maps, adding specific shapes, coloring them, becoming an online-cloud map that 
can then be displayed in Wikipedia the same way as WikiMiniAtlas.
Is there a cloud mapmaking tool for wikipedia ?-- Yug
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:07:12 +1000

From: tim o <[email protected]>

Subject: Re: [Maps-l] Maps-l Digest, Vol 27, Issue 3

To: <[email protected]>

Message-ID: <[email protected]>

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Dear Yug

did you see this site? it is up and running



Wiki Mini Atlas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiMiniAtlas



regards

Timo



Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 01:06:34 +0200

From: [email protected]

To: [email protected]

Subject: Re: [Maps-l] Maps-l Digest, Vol 27, Issue 3



Dear all,The mapmakers using Inkscape / photoshop on wikipedia (WP:GL/M) to 
generate the articles' maps currently work file after file, which generate 
scores of background / data duplication which are increasingly hard to manage. 
Also, we are willing to know : is there any ongoing project/system/extension to 
create a kind of free google maps where we ?graphists? may *create and edits* 
encyclopedic maps in the clouds ?




I noticed : * http://toolserver.org/~osm/styles/ - display many layers, no edit 
functions.


* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Map_extensions - don't seems to have 
such extension.* the online editing tool is missing ?


Regards,--

Yug


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