Tim I completely agree. This is something we need to setup. Patches very much welcomed! :-)
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 7:51 AM, Tim Alder <t...@alder-digital.de> wrote: > 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 >> Maps-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Maps-l mailing list > Maps-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l _______________________________________________ Maps-l mailing list Maps-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/maps-l
