Awesome! :) -- Deb Tankersley Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation
On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Yuri Astrakhan <[email protected]> wrote: > The Discovery's maps team would like to share the progress we have been > making, and our future goals. > > * Kartographer extension is getting closer to being deployed. It will allow > editors to insert a map and add article specific data into wiki pages. > Kartographer has a neat Visual Editor interface thanks to Ed Sanders. We > hope to add a good VE maps editor there as well. See [1] > * Wikipedia Android app now shows all nearby articles on a map (Kudos to > Dmitry Brant) > * GeoHack (gps link in the upper right corner) for Russian and Italian > Wikipedias have switched to the new map. English wiki will have it soon as > well (Kudos to Putnik and Legoktm) > * English & Russian WikiVoyage has switched to the new map > * Maps database is automatically refreshed from OSM (thanks to Max Semenik > and Alex Kosiaris) > * We now have a map without place labels [2] > > [1] DEMO: http://vem3.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page > [2] https://maps.wikimedia.org/?s=osm > > > *== Community Projects ==* > * Simon Legner has been actively developing article map [3] with some help > from Tim Alder and Daniel Schwen > * Several people are working on Wikimaps Warper [4] tool to add and > position scanned map images. > * Kartotherian tile server code has been improved [5] and deployed to a > non-WMF site. This makes us very happy because it shows that our code is > useful to others. > > [3] > > https://tools.wmflabs.org/wiwosm/osm-gadget-leaflet/#/?lang=de&article=Berlin > [4] http://wikimaps.wikimedia.fi/wikimaps-tools/wikimaps-warper/ > [5] https://github.com/zoondka/kartozoa > > > *== Future plans / goals ==* > This quarter, our goal is to improve the content discovery experience on > Wikivoyage by rolling out maps to all Wikivoyages. Specific tasks can be > tracked in Phabricator: #maps [6], #kartographer [7]. These are some of the > tasks we plan to do: > > * Deploy Kartographer extension to Wikivoyage > * Add maps editor to Kartographer > * Work with Operations to make maps a production-level service. This > includes adding more caching and backend servers. > * Offer maps as a more stable and feature rich alternative to > geohack/wiwosm/WikiMiniAtlas > * Implement cross-wiki shared data storage > * Implement static service capable of generating a map image with the > article-specific overlays > * Allow editors to add maps directly to Wikipedia > * Implement the most requested features from the Future Plans [8] > > [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/maps/ > [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/kartographer/ > [8] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/Future_Plans > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
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