I think the most important feature is to create on serverside a thumbnail for each map by using something like http://phantomjs.org/ This thumbnails should than be in the big WMF caches. The map would become interactively only in the case a user click on it. This would reduce the numbers of request for loading a page and JS overhead and it would increase the stability of the system. Without this feature I afraid to never see the extension live in Wikipedia.
Other nice features you can see at umap.openstreetmap.fr: *Choosing different backgrounds *POIs with interactive descriptions *Geometry import from OSM (WIWOSM) *different layers *... Greeting Tim alias Kolossos Am 14.05.2014 00:34, schrieb Jon Robson: > During the Zurich hackathon, DJ Hartman, Aude and I knocked up a > generic maps prototype extension [1]. We have noticed that many maps > like extensions keep popping up and believed it was time we > standardised on one that all these extensions could use so we share > data better. > > We took a look at all the existing use cases and tried to imagine what > such an extension would look like that wouldn't be too tied into a > specific use case. > > The extension we came up with was a map extension that introduces a > Map namespace where data for the map is stored in raw GeoJSON and can > be edited via a JavaScript map editor interface. It also allows the > inclusion of maps in wiki articles via a map template. > > Dan Andreescu also created a similar visualisation namespace which may > want to be folded into this as a map could be seen as a visualisation. > I invite Dan to comment on this with further details :-)! > > I'd be interested in people's thoughts around this extension. In > particular I'd be interested in the answer to the question "For my > usecase A what would the WikiMaps extension have to support for me to > use it". > > Thanks for your involvement in this discussion. Let's finally get a > maps extension up on a wikimedia box! > Jon > > [1] https://github.com/jdlrobson/WikiMaps > > _______________________________________________ > Maps-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l > _______________________________________________ Maps-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l
