Update: If you want to discuss maps, please join this hangout https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/wikimedia.org/yastrakhan
Monday, December 21, 19:00 UTC / 2:00pm EST / 11:00 am Pacific If you have any problems connecting, or if you want to talk at a different time, email me directly at y...@wikimedia.org On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 10:53 PM, Yuri Astrakhan <yastrak...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Anyone who wants to participate in this discussion is welcome to join the > hangout. > > 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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