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How about next Monday, December 21, 19:00 UTC / 2:00pm EST / 11:00 am Pacific On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 10:14 PM, Tim Alder <t...@alder-digital.de> wrote: > Hello Yuri, > if you look on the updated version of the map from Simon[1] > you can see that we use now text labels for Wikipedia entries. > > This is a design element from the WikiMiniAtlas and I think it has an > positiv effect for the user to set the visual focus on Wikipedia > content. It's also the aim to look different that google maps and it's a > quick (and dirty) way to multilingual maps. ;-) > > The problem we have now is, that we have on zommlevels that are on > Country level tons of duplications because we have the Wikipedia-label > and the Text from OSM background. If we only switch to a background > style I would miss useful informations from OSM like street names. > So it would be interesting to discuse if we could get an map where > objects with an Wikipedia/Wikidata tag are transparent. We can also talk > about if we can get a vector tiles layer with these objects from my > database to use the geojson tiles in Leaflet... > I also see a chance that labels are becoming more consitant during > panning and zooming in. > > So perhaps it would be possible if you could prepair an hangout to talk > about this and find a date for it via doodle or so. Europes evening > hours would be fine for me, but it's christmas time and the people are > busy. > > Best regards, > Tim alias Kolossos > > [1] > https://tools.wmflabs.org/wiwosm/osm-gadget-leaflet/#/?lang=en&article=London >
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